The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Corporal Richard J. White (ASN: 61453), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company H, 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Vaux, France, July 10 – 11, 1918. His patrol having withdrawn to our own lines after an encounter with a superior enemy patrol, corporal White voluntarily went out in advance of our lines, and under heavy machine-gun fire brought back a wounded member of the patrol who had been left lying near the enemy wire.