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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Service Cross

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Sergeant

    Regiment:

    119th Infantry Regiment

    Division:

    30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

    Action Date:

    August 25, 1918

    War Department, General Orders No. 32 (1919)

    The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Sergeant Charles Robert Mobley (ASN: 1315646), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company F, 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Ypres, Belgium, 25 August 1918. At imminent peril to his own life, Sergeant Mobley and two companions extinguished a fire in an ammunition dump, caused by a bursting shell, thereby preventing the explosion of the dump and saving the lives of a large number of men who were in the vicinity.