Robert G. Merrick

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert G. Merrick, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Courboin, France, July 14 – 15, 1918. After the members of his telephone detail had been pressed into service as runners under a hostile bombardment so severe that telephone communication could not be maintained, Lieutenant Merrick volunteered to drive an ambulance. He made three trips under terrific shell fire to evacuate wounded from Greves Farm.