William Sawelson

Sergeant · U.S. Army

U.S. Army, Company M, 312th Infantry, 78th Division

At Grand-Pre, France, 26 October, 1918. · Place not recorded

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Branch: U.S. Army
Era: World War I
Home state: New Jersey
Action: William Sawelson, At Grand-Pre, France, 26 October, 1918.

The citation

Official citation

Hearing a wounded man in a shell hole some distance away calling for water, Sergeant. Sawelson, upon his own initiative, left shelter and crawled through heavy machinegun fire to where the man lay, giving him what water he had in his canteen. He then went back to his own shell hole, obtained more water, and was returning to the wounded man when he was killed by a machinegun bullet.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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