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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: June 30, 2008
Caption: William Sawelson-Medal of Honor Recipient World War I
Additional Description: He is buried in Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery. His Medal of Honor information and citation is: *SAWELSON, WILLIAM • Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company M, 312th Infantry, 78th Division • Place and date: At Grand-Pre, France, 26 October, 1918 • Entered service at: Harrison, N.J. • G.O. No.: 16, W.D., 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.
Submitted: January 13, 2016, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p343950
File Size: 3.098 Megabytes

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