Medal of Honor
October 9, 1918
near Verdun, France
- Rank at action
- Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- World War I
- Unit or command
- Company A, 1st Engineers, 1st Division
- Presentation date
- December 31, 1919
The Citation
Sources ↓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.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Wilbur E Colyer — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000300
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 20
- Entered service at
- South Ozone, Long Island, N.Y.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 6db93975a7154a065752309f04f4612cef8645d617b165cfbc1312e4613175dc
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current reference profile confirms identity and core action metadata; legacy full citation text and source-row provenance are retained; General Order comparison remains pending.