Robert William Norton
Home Town: East Bloomfield, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Robert William Norton, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cunel, France, October 11, 1918. During the action in the Bois De Foret, Captain Norton, with another officer, braved the hazardous fire by going out into “No Man’s Land” and capturing 20 Germans at the point of his pistol. Although he lost two of the enemy during the encounter, he personally conducted the remaining back to our lines.