The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Soldier’s Medal to Contract Surgeon Augustus L. L. Baker, United States Army, for heroism, not involving actual conflict with an enemy, displayed on 10 July, 1926, during the explosions at the Lake Denmark Naval Ammunition Depot, near Dover, New Jersey. Dr. Baker, the contract surgeon for Picatinny Arsenal, was in his office in Dover, New Jersey, when he felt the concussion of the first explosion and immediately left for the arsenal. Upon learning that an injured woman was lying in the road near the point where the two heaviest explosions had occurred, Dr. Baker, accompanied by two other men, proceeded toward that point. While there was probability of other serious detonations, they reached the injured woman, rendered first aid, and dispatched the patient to the hospital. The rescue was made at a time when there was a continuous roar of exploding magazines and when the air was filled with flying shells, stones, and fragments of buildings, and was effected shortly before the third heavy explosion occurred.