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U.S. ArmyAwarded Posthumously

Wilbur E. Colyer

ConflictWorld War I

Year of Action1918

Unit/CommandCompany A, 1st Engineers, 1st Division

BirthplaceBrooklyn, New York

Citation

Volunteering with 2 other soldiers to locate machinegun nests, Sgt. 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.

Branch: U.S. Army Conflict: World War I Year of Action: 1918