Robert Marshall Teachey
Home Town: Raleigh, NC
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 142, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert Marshall Teachey, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ypres, Belgium, August 2, 1918. Private Teachey volunteered to accompany an officer on a daylight patrol to destroy an enemy pillbox. With great courage under heavy shell and machine-gun fire, they rushed the pillbox, killed or wounded the occupants, and accomplished their mission.