Robert Colflesh
Home Town: Des Moines, IA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 59, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert Colflesh, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fossoy, France, July 14, 1918. After his men had been caught in an intense artillery shelling, Corporal Colflesh, although wounded, refused to seek shelter until all his men had taken cover. While aiding the last man into a trench he received a second wound.