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World War I
Earl D. Gregory
Sergeant · U.S. Army
U.S. Army, Headquarters Company, 116th Infantry, 29th Division
8 October 1918 · Bois de Consenvoye, north of Verdun, France
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- World War I
- Home state
- Virginia
- Action
- Bois de Consenvoye, north of Verdun, France
The citation
Official citation
With the remark "I will get them," Sergeant. Gregory seized a rifle and a trench-mortar shell, which he used as a handgrenade, left his detachment of the trench-mortar platoon, and advancing ahead of the infantry, captured a machinegun and 3 of the enemy. Advancing still farther from the machinegun nest, he captured a 7.5-centimeter mountain howitzer and, entering a dugout in the immediate vicinity, single-handedly captured 19 of the enemy.