Robert F. Crandall
Home Town: Stamford, CT
General Orders No. No. 35, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert F. Crandall, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Chateau-Thierry, France, June 18, 1918. Lieutenant Crandall led a platoon across the Marne River. When fired upon from three directions the patrol was forced back to the river bank. Finding some of the men missing, he alone returned to the place within the enemy lines in order to guide back the missing members of the patrol. In an encounter with a group of the enemy he captured and brought back an enemy noncommissioned officer.
