The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Boatswain’s Mate First Class Charles Burnett, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty as a Member of a party of volunteers under Lieutenant Connolly, which went on board the U.S.S. WESTBRIDGE after that vessel had been torpedoed on 15 August 1918, and remained on board under difficult conditions, until the vessel was brought into port.