The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Nurse Marie B. Rhodes (Cash), United States Army Nurse Corps, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I. As Chief of the Nurses’ Equipment Bureau of the military department, American Red Cross, in Paris France, Nurse Rhoades (now Mrs. Clarence Cash) rendered invaluable service to the Army. She organized and developed a department which was able not only to supply and replace nurses’ equipment but to transport the material all over France, even to rapidly moving units and teams at the front. By her remarkable business acumen and integrity, unusual resourcefulness, and initiative, she made a contribution to the welfare, efficiency, and conduct of the American Expeditionary Forces nursing forces which can not be measured. In addition to her most arduous duties during the day she frequently spent part of the nights during the emergency giving her services as an anesthetist in the Army hospitals in Paris.