Colyer Wilbur E.

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Wilbur E. Colyer is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

New York City AEF Tablet

Name:

Wilbur E. Colyer

Rank:

Sergeant

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Unit:

1st Engineer Combat Battalion, 1st Infantry Division

Date of Death:

1918-10-10

State:

New York

Cemetery:

Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, Ne

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Grave:

Decoration:

Congressional Medal of Honor

Comments:

Colyer was awarded his Medal of Honor in action near Verdun on Oct. 9, 1918. His citation reads, "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."