San Francisco County CA Archives Military Records.....Roberts, Harold W. 1918
WWI 344th Battalion, Tank Corps, Co. A
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Congressional Medal Of Honor Citation
    Harold W. Roberts, corporal, Company A, 344th Battalion, Tank Corps.
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty
in action with the enemy in the Montrebeau Woods, France, October 4, 1918.
Corpl. Rolerts, a tank driver, was moving his tank into a clump of bushes to
afford protection to another tank which had become disabled. The tank slid into 
a shell hole, 10 feet deep, filled with water, and was immediately submerged. 
Knowing that only one of the two men in the tank could escape, Corpl. Roberts 
said to the gunner, "Well only one of us can get out, and out you go," whereupon 
he pushed his companion through the back door of the tank and was himself drowned.
Emergency address: Paul W. Leifert, uncle, Emporium, Fifth and Market Streets, 
San Francisco, Calif. Residence at enlistment: San Francisco, Calif.


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CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR
THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
AND THE
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL
ISSUED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT
Since April 6, 1917
Up to and including
General Orders, No. 126, War Department, November 11, 1919

COMPILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF THE ARMY
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1920


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