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, 1919 Chester County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails Transcribed by Dena Whitesell *Indicates posthumous award Robert S. Cochrane,  chief pharmacist's mate. United States Navy, attached to 6th Machine Gun Battalion, United States Marine Corps. For extraordinary heroism in action near St Ktienne, France, October 3-4, 1918. He continued to dress wounded when the area in which be was working was swept by machine-gun fire. He was an example of coolness to all during 48 hours of continuous shell fire, never hesitating to expose himself to danger when assistance was needed.  Residence at enlistment: Hichburg, S.C. (unable to find the town 'Hichburg'...may be a typo - could this be Richburg?) *Robert M. Wilson (Army serial No. 1311934),  private, Company I. 118th Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in action near Brancourt, France, October 8, 1918. Pvt. Wilson. who was a Lewis gunner, encountered an enemy machine-gun nest containing four Germans, who were inflicting heavy mcasualties on the right platoon of the company. He opened fire with his Lewis gun and then chargeed the nest, firing as he advanced and killing all the occupants of the post.  On October 17, 1918., Pvt. Wilson was killed while on duty with his company.  Emergency address: David Y. Wilson, father, Great Falls, S.C. Residence at enlistment: Great Falls, S.C. Back to Chester County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails Copyright © Genealogy Trails All Rights Reserved with Full Rights Reserved for Original Contributor This is a FREE website. If you were directed here through a link for which you paid $ for, you can access much more FREE data via our South Carolina index page at http://www.genealogytrails.com/scar/index.html Also make sure to visit our main Genealogy Trails History Group website at http://genealogytrails.com for much more nationwide historical/genealogical data and access to other state/county data