Robert Bascom
Home Town: Portland, OR
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 22, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert Bascom, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Badricourt, Alsace, France, July 19, 1918. During an enemy raid on a platoon sector, Private Bascom, although wounded three times by shell fragments, carried a message through artillery barrages to the company headquarters and returned with reinforcements. He did not accept first aid until after the raid had been repulsed.