Wilbur E. Colyer

Sergeant · U.S. Army

U.S. Army, Company A, 1st Engineers, 1st Division

9 October 1918 · Verdun, France

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Branch: U.S. Army
Era: World War I
Home state: New York
Action: Verdun, France

The citation

Official citation

Volunteering with 2 other soldiers to locate machinegun nests, Sergeant. Colyer advanced on the hostile positions to a point where he was half surrounded by the nests, which were in ambush. He killed the gunner of one gun with a captured German grenade and then turned this gun on the other nests silencing all of them before he returned to his platoon. He was later killed in action.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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