Robert C. Buchanan

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert C. Buchanan, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Metzera, Alsace, September 16 – 17, 1918. On the night of September 16 – 17 Private First Class Buchanan led his patrol into an entirely unfamiliar sector of the enemy positions and without artillery support captured four prisoners and secured much valuable information; despite the heavy hostile grenade, rifle, automatic rifle and machine-gun fire, “he cut through the enemy’s electrified wire and overcame a sentinel without losing a man. Three of the prisoners were captured by Private Buchanan when he alone stormed a barricaded dugout and disarmed three Germans.