William Sawelson

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Years of service 1917 - 1918 Battles and wars World War I Battles/wars World War I		Name William Sawelson Rank Sergeant Awards Medal of Honor

Born August 5, 1895Newark, New Jersey ( 1895-08-05 ) Place of burial Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial Romagne Meuse, France Died October 26, 1918, Grandpre, France
Service/branch United States Army Allegiance United States of America

William Sawelson (August 5, 1895 – October 26, 1918) was a sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for valor in combat. The medal was posthumously presented to his father Jacob L. Sawelson at Governors Island.

He is buried at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial east of the village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon.

Medal of Honor citation

Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company M, 312th Infantry, 78th Division.

Place and date: At Grand-Pre, France, October 26, 1918.

Entered service at: Harrison, N.J.

Born: August 5, 1895, Newark, N.J.

General Orders No.16, War Department, January 22, 1919.

Citation:

Hearing a wounded man in a shell hole some distance away calling for water, Sgt. 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.

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