Benjmain McAlwee

MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION

Picked up a shell with burning fuse and threw it over the parapet into the ditch, where it exploded; by this act he probably saved the lives of comrades at the great peril of his own.

Rank: Sergeant
Conflicts: Civil War
Organization: U.S. Army

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