The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Award of the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Colonel (Medical Corps), [then Brigadier General] Edgar Erskine Hume (ASN: 0-4033), United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility from June 1943 to April 1945. (Section II, General Orders 59, WD, 1944 pertaining to the award of the Distinguished Service Medal (first Oak Leaf Cluster) to Colonel Hume (then Brigadier General) is rescinded.)

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 (Medical Corps) Edgar Erskine Hume, 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 Chief Medical Officer and later as Commissioner of the American Red Cross in Serbia, February 1919 to June 1920, with untiring energy, unremitting devotion to duty, and with rare administrative and professional skill Lieutenant Colonel Hume organized and operated an American sanitary service, reorganized hospitals, dispensaries, and dressing stations for soldiers and civilians alike, and successfully combating an epidemic of typhus fever which had caused the death of 80 per cent of the Serbian doctors. From June 1918 to February 1919, in direct charge of an American base hospital which was later expanded by the addition of Italian hospitals into a composite hospital center in the Italian war zone, he rendered professional services of a highly conspicuous character.