Robert L. Campbell
Home Town: Greensboro, NC
General Orders No. 27, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert L. Campbell, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Binarville, France, September 27, 1918. In the afternoon of September 27 Lieutenant Campbell saw a runner fall wounded in the middle of a field swept by heavy machine-gun fire. At imminent peril to his own life, and in full view of the enemy, he crossed the field and carried the wounded soldier to shelter.
