Robert John Stockdale

Awarded the Military Cross (London Gazette 16.9.1918) as Lieutenant, 5th Battalion DLI.

"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When orders were given for the front line to be withdrawn, this officer, who was in support with his company, seeing that the enemy were pressing on so fast that a number of men were liable to be cut off, with great initiative led his company in a counter-attack, delaying the enemy sufficiently to allow the front-line to withdraw unmolested. He was wounded in the thigh and arm."