Broome County NyArchives Military Records.....Kocak, Matej 1918
WWI 5th Regt., 2d Division, USMC, Co. C
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Congressional Medal Of Honor Citation
    Matej Kocak, sergeant, Company C, 5th Regiment, United States Marine
Corps, 2d Division. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and
beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy near Soissons, France, July
18, 1918. When the advance of his battalion was checked by a hidden machine-
gun nest, he went forward alone, unprotected by covering fire from his own men,
and worked In between the German position in the face of fire from an enemy
covering detachment. Locating the machine-gun nest, he rushed it, and with his
bayonet drove off the crew. Shortly after this, he organized 25 French colonial
soldiers, who had become separated from their company, and led them in at
tacking another machine-gun nest, which was also put out of action. Emergency
address: Matej Kocak, father, Gbely, Nitra, Czecho-Slovac. Residence at
enlistment: Binghamton, N. Y.


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CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR
THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
AND THE
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL
ISSUED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT
Since April 6, 1917
Up to and including
General Orders, No. 126, War Department, November 11, 1919

COMPILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF THE ARMY
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1920


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