CPL.HAROLD W. ROBERTS
Co A, 344th Battalion, Tank Corps.
Montrebeau Woods, France
4 October 1918
Cpl. Roberts, was a driver in the newest war machine, the “Tank.” He was moving his tank to a better defensive position to protect another allied tank that had been disabled by enemy artillery.
The tank slid into a 10 feet deep shell hole, filled with water, and was immediately submerged. Cpl. Roberts looked at his gunner, and said: “Well, only one of us can get out, and out you go,”
Then the young corporal, a muscular man, grabbed his gunner and forced him against the flow of water and out the escape hatch.
Cpl Harold Roberts’ body was later recovered from his submerged tank.
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