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S/Sgt Robert E. Lee was employed by the Westona Backery when he joined the Regular Army on 16 October 1940.

On 11 February 1945, S/Sgt Lee, commander of a rifle squad attacking through enemy held woods near Biesdorf, Germany, observed that a German machine gun on the flank was temporarily delaying the advance of the company. Realizing that many casualties would result from this fire, S/Sgt Lee voluntarily crawled through mortar and artillery fire to an exposed position fifty yards from the enemy emplacement, destroying the machine gun and crew with one round of rocket fire. Later, an anti-tank gun prevented the company's advance and again S/Sgt Lee destroyed the gun by effective rocket fire. For this action he was awarded the Silver Star Medal.