Distinguished Service Cross - War Department, General Orders No. 133 (1918). CITATION: The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to First Lieutenant (Infantry) Philip R. Colebank, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 147th Infantry Regiment, 37th Division, A.E.F., near Ivoiry, France, 29 September 1918. First Lieutenant Colebank, with two soldiers went out in the face of heavy machine-gun and artillery fire to bring in a wounded soldier. As they reached the wounded man a shell burst, killing him instantly.
Captain Philip Rolla Colebank, born in Denton, Texas 3 May 1885, was the oldest child of John Thomas Colebank and Harriet Margaret (Green) Colebank of Gray County, Texas. Denton is 38 miles north northwest of Dallas. Gray County is in the panhandle of Texas 57 miles due east of Amarillo. He was survived by a wife, Emma (Reiter) Colebank, and two children, Viola 3, and Calvin 1, in Oakley, Hamilton County (Cincinnati), Ohio. Oakley is 6 miles northeast of Cincinnati.
In the 1900 census 15-year-old Philip is living with his parents and siblings George 12, Martha 11, Thomas Jr 9 Charles 8, Robert 6, Minnie 5, Green 3, and Mary 8 months, on a Farm in Gray county, Texas.
In the 1910 census 24-year-old Philip is a Yeoman 2nd Class in the United States Navy aboard the USS Tennessee. The Tennessee was at 12 degrees 21 minutes South and 36 degrees 45 West, just off the east coast of Brazil, 31 July 1910 the official date of enumeration of the census.
Soldiers of the Great War, Vol 2, Ohio, lists Lieutenants: Colebank, Philip R., from Cincinnati as killed in action 29 Sep 1918. The 37th Division was in the middle of the Meuse Argonne line on the jump off date on 26 Sep. Captain, then 1st Lieutenant, Colebank was killed by a shell burst near Ivoiry while attempting to retrieve a wounded soldier on the 3rd day of the Meuse Argonne offensive. Ivoiry is 1.7 miles west of Montfaucon.
In the 1920 census Emma is living with Viola 5, and Calvin 3 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. In the 1930 census Emma is living with Viola 15, and Calvin 14 in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio.
Emma remarried Harvey Everett Beyer sometime before the 1940 census. She passed away in 1961.
Captain Philip Rolla Colebank, born in Denton, Texas 3 May 1885, was the oldest child of John Thomas Colebank and Harriet Margaret (Green) Colebank of Gray County, Texas. Denton is 38 miles north northwest of Dallas. Gray County is in the panhandle of Texas 57 miles due east of Amarillo. He was survived by a wife, Emma (Reiter) Colebank, and two children, Viola 3, and Calvin 1, in Oakley, Hamilton County (Cincinnati), Ohio. Oakley is 6 miles northeast of Cincinnati.
In the 1900 census 15-year-old Philip is living with his parents and siblings George 12, Martha 11, Thomas Jr 9 Charles 8, Robert 6, Minnie 5, Green 3, and Mary 8 months, on a Farm in Gray county, Texas.
In the 1910 census 24-year-old Philip is a Yeoman 2nd Class in the United States Navy aboard the USS Tennessee. The Tennessee was at 12 degrees 21 minutes South and 36 degrees 45 West, just off the east coast of Brazil, 31 July 1910 the official date of enumeration of the census.
Soldiers of the Great War, Vol 2, Ohio, lists Lieutenants: Colebank, Philip R., from Cincinnati as killed in action 29 Sep 1918. The 37th Division was in the middle of the Meuse Argonne line on the jump off date on 26 Sep. Captain, then 1st Lieutenant, Colebank was killed by a shell burst near Ivoiry while attempting to retrieve a wounded soldier on the 3rd day of the Meuse Argonne offensive. Ivoiry is 1.7 miles west of Montfaucon.
In the 1920 census Emma is living with Viola 5, and Calvin 3 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. In the 1930 census Emma is living with Viola 15, and Calvin 14 in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio.
Emma remarried Harvey Everett Beyer sometime before the 1940 census. She passed away in 1961.
Distinguished Service Cross - War Department, General Orders No. 133 (1918). CITATION: The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to First Lieutenant (Infantry) Philip R. Colebank, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 147th Infantry Regiment, 37th Division, A.E.F., near Ivoiry, France, 29 September 1918. First Lieutenant Colebank, with two soldiers went out in the face of heavy machine-gun and artillery fire to bring in a wounded soldier. As they reached the wounded man a shell burst, killing him instantly.
Captain Philip Rolla Colebank, born in Denton, Texas 3 May 1885, was the oldest child of John Thomas Colebank and Harriet Margaret (Green) Colebank of Gray County, Texas. Denton is 38 miles north northwest of Dallas. Gray County is in the panhandle of Texas 57 miles due east of Amarillo. He was survived by a wife, Emma (Reiter) Colebank, and two children, Viola 3, and Calvin 1, in Oakley, Hamilton County (Cincinnati), Ohio. Oakley is 6 miles northeast of Cincinnati.
In the 1900 census 15-year-old Philip is living with his parents and siblings George 12, Martha 11, Thomas Jr 9 Charles 8, Robert 6, Minnie 5, Green 3, and Mary 8 months, on a Farm in Gray county, Texas.
In the 1910 census 24-year-old Philip is a Yeoman 2nd Class in the United States Navy aboard the USS Tennessee. The Tennessee was at 12 degrees 21 minutes South and 36 degrees 45 West, just off the east coast of Brazil, 31 July 1910 the official date of enumeration of the census.
Soldiers of the Great War, Vol 2, Ohio, lists Lieutenants: Colebank, Philip R., from Cincinnati as killed in action 29 Sep 1918. The 37th Division was in the middle of the Meuse Argonne line on the jump off date on 26 Sep. Captain, then 1st Lieutenant, Colebank was killed by a shell burst near Ivoiry while attempting to retrieve a wounded soldier on the 3rd day of the Meuse Argonne offensive. Ivoiry is 1.7 miles west of Montfaucon.
In the 1920 census Emma is living with Viola 5, and Calvin 3 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. In the 1930 census Emma is living with Viola 15, and Calvin 14 in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio.
Emma remarried Harvey Everett Beyer sometime before the 1940 census. She passed away in 1961.
Captain Philip Rolla Colebank, born in Denton, Texas 3 May 1885, was the oldest child of John Thomas Colebank and Harriet Margaret (Green) Colebank of Gray County, Texas. Denton is 38 miles north northwest of Dallas. Gray County is in the panhandle of Texas 57 miles due east of Amarillo. He was survived by a wife, Emma (Reiter) Colebank, and two children, Viola 3, and Calvin 1, in Oakley, Hamilton County (Cincinnati), Ohio. Oakley is 6 miles northeast of Cincinnati.
In the 1900 census 15-year-old Philip is living with his parents and siblings George 12, Martha 11, Thomas Jr 9 Charles 8, Robert 6, Minnie 5, Green 3, and Mary 8 months, on a Farm in Gray county, Texas.
In the 1910 census 24-year-old Philip is a Yeoman 2nd Class in the United States Navy aboard the USS Tennessee. The Tennessee was at 12 degrees 21 minutes South and 36 degrees 45 West, just off the east coast of Brazil, 31 July 1910 the official date of enumeration of the census.
Soldiers of the Great War, Vol 2, Ohio, lists Lieutenants: Colebank, Philip R., from Cincinnati as killed in action 29 Sep 1918. The 37th Division was in the middle of the Meuse Argonne line on the jump off date on 26 Sep. Captain, then 1st Lieutenant, Colebank was killed by a shell burst near Ivoiry while attempting to retrieve a wounded soldier on the 3rd day of the Meuse Argonne offensive. Ivoiry is 1.7 miles west of Montfaucon.
In the 1920 census Emma is living with Viola 5, and Calvin 3 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. In the 1930 census Emma is living with Viola 15, and Calvin 14 in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio.
Emma remarried Harvey Everett Beyer sometime before the 1940 census. She passed away in 1961.
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