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Wilbur E. Colyer
1898 – 1918
Wilbur E. Colyer served the U.S. Army. Wilbur was 20 years old.
Service Record
U.S. Army
Medal of Honor
9 October 1918 · Near Verdun, France · Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company A, 1st Engineers, 1st Division.
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.
20, W.D., 1919.
Awards & Decorations
1
For valor
Medal of Honor - Army posthumous
20, W.D., 1919.
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.
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