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 Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I. As Division Inspector and more especially as an Acting General Staff Officer of the 27th Division in the Dickebusch sector in Belgium, the Ypres-Lys offensive, and the battle of the La Selle River, in France, by his energy, efficient coordination of details and persistent application to his task, Lieutenant Colonel Wainwright regulated all movements of the division, involving the evacuation of wounded, the relief of units of the line, supplying of rations and ammunition, and the control of communications, with such marked success as incurred a minimum of loss in each operation.