Philip R. Colebank
Home Town: Cincinnati, OH
General Orders No. No. 133, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Philip R. Colebank, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ivoiry, France, September 29, 1918. First Lieutenant Colebank, with two soldiers went out in the face of heavy machine-gun and artillery fire to bring in a wounded soldier. As they reached the wounded man a shell burst, killing him instantly.
