The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross, in lieu of a previously issued Certificate of Merit and Distinguished Service Medal, to Private George Moreland, United States Army, for highly meritorious conduct while serving as a member of Company L, 26th Infantry Regiment, in voluntarily nursing a comrade who was suffering from Asiatic cholera while separated from attendance, and without assistance preparing the body for burial, thereby contracting the disease and endangering his own life in safeguarding the health of his comrades, at Cabano, Guimaras, Philippine Islands, 30 October 1902.