The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Captain Edmond H. Morse (MCSN: 0-688), United States Marine Corps, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in duties of great responsibility as Embarkation officer at the Port of Southampton, and subsequently as Embarkation Officer at the Port of Liverpool, England, in 1917 and 1918. In both of these positions his performance of duty was conspicuously able under conditions of great difficulty. By unsparing application to the work, and by tact, sound judgment and ability Captain Morse secured and maintained the cordial co-operation of the British Military and Naval authorities, working jointly with him in the successful accomplishment of this important task of handling, without loss or mishap, some three-fourths of a million American troops through the United Kingdom to English Channel ports, for further transfer to France.