Robert Mack Emery

went to MIT in Cambridge Mass in 1930 - 1934.

Emery rowed Crew as a coxswain. They named a crew shell after him which

He joined the Army Corp. of Engineers in January 1941 just after Pearl Harbor. He participated in Operation Torch, the invasion of N. Africa

He won posthumously a Distinguished Service Cross award for this. (The nations second highest military decoration.)

32994 ROBERT M. EMERY b 5 Sep 1911 Williamson, Illinois

 Robert M. Emery was born in 1912, son of Ambrose Robert Emery (I assume was killed in N. Africa in 1941 when his group of infantry were attacking a German machine gun nest. Robert M. Emery personally charged the machine gun nest and lobbed a grenade at the Germans which disabled the machine gun. He was killed in the process

U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946

• Name: Robert M Emery
• Birth Year: 1920
• Nativity State or Country: Illinois
• State: Illinois
• County or City: Williamson
• Enlistment Date: 30 Nov 1939
• Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
• Education: Grammar school
• Civil Occupation: Photolithographer (Lithographer, general.) or Lithographic Engraver
• (Lithographic draftsman.)
• Marital Status: Single, without dependents
• Height: 78
• Weight: 066

Judith Elaine Burns, Revised Genealogical Records of Descendants of John Emery of Newbury, Massachuetts,The (1982, Gateway Press Inc. Baltimore, Md.)

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Robert M. Emery

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Emery

Robert MacNab Emery (September 5, 1911 – November 8, 1942) was a United States Army soldier during World War II who received the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during Operation Torch near Djebel Mrdajajdo, Algeria. Emery Barracks in [Veitsh%C3%B6chheim, near Würzburg, in Bavaria, Germany, was named in his honor in 1953. The U.S. Army Engineer Port Repair Ship Robert M. Emery was also named in his honor.[1]

Early life and education Robert MacNab Emery was born 5 September 1911, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Brigadier General Ambrose Robert Emery and Elizabeth Christie MacNab. His father, a life-long soldier, was Commander of the Infantry Replacement Training Center at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, during World War II. Robert attended the Severn School and later studied Civil Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1931 to 1934. While at MIT, he was a member of the Chi Epsilon fraternity and the Scabbard and Blade Society.

Career While studying at MIT, Emery was enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). He was later commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Emery was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division during Operation Torch in North Africa. He was killed in action on 8 November 1942. Lieutenant Emery was presented the Distinguished Service Cross and Purple Heart posthumously for his actions on that date.

Emery was buried in Plot H, Row 12, Grave 10, in the North Africa American Cemetery in Carthage, Tunisia.[2]

Distinguished Service Cross Citation The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Robert M. Emery (0-317400), First Lieutenant (Corps of Engineers), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving with Headquarters, 1st Infantry Division, in action against enemy forces on 8 November 1942 in Algeria. First Lieutenant Emery made the supreme sacrifice while attempting single-handedly to eliminate an enemy machine gun nest holding up the advance of his unit at ***** [sic], Algeria. First Lieutenant Emery's intrepid actions, personal bravery and zealous devotion to duty at the cost of his life, exemplify the highest traditions of the military forces of the United States and reflect great credit upon himself, the 1st Infantry Division, and the United States Army. (War Department, General Orders No. 6, February 9, 1943)[3]

Emery Barracks Nord-Kaserne, also known as Adolf-Hitler-Kaserne, was renamed Emery Barracks (also called Emery Kaserne) on 18 May 1953 (HQ USAREUR General Order #42, 18 May 1953), in honor of 1LT Robert M. Emery of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who served with the 1st Infantry Division and was killed in action on 8 November 1942, near Djebel Mrdajajdo in Algeria.