Queens County NyArchives Military Records.....Colyer, Wilbur E. 1918
WWI 1st Engineers, 1st Division, Co. A
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Congressional Medal Of Honor Citation
    Wilbur E. Colyer, sergeant, Company A, 1st Engineers, 1st Division. For
conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in
action with the enemy near Verdun, France, October 9, 1918. Volunteering with
two other soldiers to locate machine-gun nests, Sergt. 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. Emergency address: Mr.
William H. Colyer, father, 202 Helen Avenue, South Ozone, Long Island, N. Y.
Residence at enlistment: 292 Helen Avenue, South Ozone, Long Island, 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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