John J. Robinson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John J. Robinson, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Cunel Heights, France, October 12, 1918. After three other runners had been wounded in attempting to carry a message to a platoon in advance of the front line, Corporal Robinson volunteered for this hazardous mission, and, passing 400 meters under direct machine-gun fire of the enemy, succeeded in reaching the platoon and notifying it to withdraw before our artillery barrage began to fall.