Robert L. Baldridge
Home Town: Toledo, OH
General Orders No. 59, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert L. Baldridge, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Hearne, Belgium, November 4, 1918. With two other soldiers, Private Baldridge volunteered to rescue two wounded men who had been lying in an exposed position on the opposite bank of the Scheldt River for two days. Making two trips across the stream in the face of heavy machine-gun and shell fire, he and his companion succeeded in carrying both the wounded men to shelter.
