Robert Colflesh - War Hero

COLFLESH

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 7/19/2004 at 06:00:27

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
Robert Colflesh (army serial No. 2395261), corporal, Company M, 7th Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in action near Fossoy, France, July 14, 1918. After his men had been caught in an intense artillery shelling, Corporal Colflesh, although wounded, refused to seek shelter until all his men had taken cover. while aiding the last man into a trench he received a second wound.

Residence at enlistment: 777 W. 14th Street, Des Moines, Iowa

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Military Decorations of Iowans in the World War, pg. 363

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall