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 Sergeant Thomas M. White (ASN: 1711891), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company D, 306th Machine-Gun Battalion, 77th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Toter Manns Valley, France, 4 October 1918. While in command of his platoon, Sergeant White went with two other soldiers to the rescue of three members of a gun crew, among whom a German hand grenade had burst. Finding one of the men dead and another so severely wounded that he could not be moved, Sergeant White carried the third man to shelter in plain view of the enemy, under continuous shell and machine-gun fire. His comrades also having been wounded, he also succeeded in getting them back to safety, and thereafter twice returned to the gun position to administer first aid and carry water to the wounded soldier, who could not be moved.