Robert R. Cook

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert R. Cook, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Bois-de- Chaume, France, October 11, 1918. Sergeant Cook crawled out in front of the lines some hundred yards to locate enemy snipers. While in this perilous position he fired upon and put out of action a group of enemy machine gunners, thus exposing his position and drawing enemy sniper fire. Having in his possession a number of asphyxiating grenades, which emit a dense white smoke, he hurled one of the at the sniper’s position and under cover of this improvised smoke screen walked back to the lines.