The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Major William F. Bevan (MCSN: 0-75), United States Marine Corps, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service as Assistant to the Chief Paymaster of the U. S. Marine Corps in France. Major Bevan performed arduous and complex duties, many of which were outside the normal sphere of the Paymaster’s Department. With untiring zeal and unlimited patience Major Bevan worked unceasingly, under the most trying circumstances, to relieve combatant units of a mass of clerical and administrative detail. His ability and tireless devotion to duty added much to the morale of the personnel serving under him and as a direct result of this, in no small degree to the morale of the combatant forces of the Corps in France.