World War I
Gary Evans Foster
Sergeant · U.S. Army
U.S. Army, Company F, 118th Infantry, 30th Division
8 October 1918 · Montbrehain, France
Public domain. United States Army Source file
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- World War I
- Home state
- South Carolina
- Action
- Montbrehain, France
The citation
Official citation
When his company was held up by violent machinegun fire from a sunken road, Sergeant. Foster with an officer went forward to attack the hostile machinegun nests. The officer was wounded, but Sergeant. Foster continued on alone in the face of the heavy fire and by effective use of handgrenades and his pistol killed several of the enemy and captured 18.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.
