Robert L. Freeman
Home Town: North Yakima, WA
General Orders No. No. 47, W.D., 1921
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert L. Freeman, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, October 7, 1918. One of four survivors of a platoon of 41 who attacked Hill 269, Sergeant Freeman, with the three others, continued on their mission and held the hill for some time without hope of reinforcements.
