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Distinguished Service Cross Recipients

About the Distinguished Service Cross

Clay County

   
     Robert E. Wickliffe, private, Company A, 4th Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in action near Grand Ballois Farm, France, July 14-15, 1918. After being severely wounded he remained at his post, performing his duties as a relay runner until relieved.

Residence at enlistment: Spencer, Iowa (Clay co.)



 
   

 

~source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Military Decorations of Iowans in the World War, pg. 360-376

~ Transcribed and contributed by Sharyl Ferrall for Iowa in the Great War Special Project