Robert G. Marshall
Home Town: Minneapolis, MN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 66, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert G. Marshall, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the Bois-du-Fays, France, October 4, 1918. When his company’s advance was stopped by heavy enfilading machine-gun fire, Captain Marshall (then lieutenant) took seven soldiers and rushed the enemy nest, killing six of the enemy and capturing 30 including a captain. Captain Marshall accomplished this daring feat without any of his own men becoming casualties.