Robart P. Rowan
Home Town: Greenville, VA
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robart P. Rowan, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Samogneux, France, October 9, 1918. After being painfully wounded Corporal Rowan continued to lead his squad against a machine-gun and silenced it, thereby saving his company many casualties.
