Luther W. Cobbey

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Luther W. Cobbey, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Chateau-Thierry, France, May 31 – June 4, 1918. Responding to a call for help Lieutenant Cobbey crossed the bridge over the Marne alone under heavy machine-gun fire of our own and enemy troops and assisted an officer and several wounded soldiers who had been trapped on the north bank of the river to cross the bridge and reach our lines in safety.