Robert E. Geyer
Home Town: South Bend, IN
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert E. Geyer, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Thiaucourt, France, September 12, 1918. While acting as spare gunner, Private Geyer sprang, at a word from his executive officer, to act as No. 1 in the supplementary gun crew for the first piece, whose entire crew were casualties. He assisted in laying aside the dead and wounded and continued in the service of his piece until the barrage was completed.
