Raymond G. Rowbottom

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Raymond G. Rowbottom, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismette, France, August 12, 1918. With an automatic rifle team, Corporal Rowbottom occupied a house in an advanced position west of Fismette, on the night of August 12, the loss of which would have jeopardized his company’s position and hindered the military operations then taking place. The enemy shot a flare into the house, setting fire to it, but Corporal Rowbottom and a companion, under machine-gun and sniper fire in a brilliantly lighted room, extinguished the flames.