By direction of the President, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 9, 1918 (Bul. No. 43, W.D., 1918), Corporal Emmett E. Crook, United States Army, is cited by the Commanding General, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, and a silver star may be placed upon the ribbon of the World War I Victory Medals awarded him. While serving with Headquarters Company, 10th Field Artillery Regiment, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Montfaucon, France, on 19 October 1918, Corporal Crook worked two days and nights without rest and little food, laying telephone wire under heavy shell fire and later had to be transferred to a hospital for physical exhaustion.