Robert P. Clark
Home Town: Orono, ME
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert P. Clark, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cantigny, France, July 4, 1918. Accompanied by five men, Lieutenant Clark rushed a trench manned by a greatly superior number of the enemy, and fought until the entire enemy garrison had been killed or wounded. Four of his patrol were killed and one wounded in the encounter. He bandaged the wounded man and returned to our lines, carrying a wounded German prisoner.
