Woodruff W. Dobson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Woodruff W. Dobson, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Le Moulin de l’Homme Mort, France, September 29, 1918. Lieutenant Dobson volunteered and reconnoitered in front of the first line battalion to secure information regarding enemy machine-guns and minenwerfers which had checked the advance of his organization. He was wounded by a sniper’s bullet as he crawled back from this reconnaissance, but refused to submit to first-aid, until he made his report to the battalion commander and informed his men of the enemy’s position.