Robert G. Carter

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert G. Carter, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Thiaucourt, France, September 12 – 14, 1918. Commanding a platoon of Stokes mortars, Lieutenant Carter showed marked bravery and leadership, capturing many prisoners and directing the organization of captured positions with utter disregard of his personal danger. On September 14 he directed the operations of his mortars under an intense artillery and machine-gun fire until the last one was smashed by shell fire; and he having been twice wounded and unable to continue forward, called his section leaders and ordered them to continue the advance with the Infantry, before he would allow himself to be taken to the rear.