Robert H. Murdoch

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert H. Murdoch, First Lieutenant (Medical Corps), U.S. Army, for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action at Sergy, France, July 29 – 31, 1918; and at St. Thibaut, France, August 6 – 12, 1918. Accompanying his battalion in the attack on Sergy, Lieutenant Murdoch advanced for more than a mile under heavy shell fire, and as soon as the southern half of the town had been taken he established his dressing station, maintaining it during the three days of fighting under constant and severe bombardment. When his battalion went into action at St. Thibaut this faithful officer again displayed heroic devotion to duty by working in his dressing station under the most trying conditions for six days while the town was bombarded with gas and high- explosive shells.