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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Sawelson

U.S. Army · World War I

MOH-RC-002648Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1904 Army design, early suspension ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1919

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Representative form selected from the recorded presentation year (1919), not authenticated medal-object provenance.

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Medal of Honor

October 26, 1918

Grandpré, France

Rank at action
Sergeant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
Company M, 312th Infantry, 78th Division
Presentation date
December 31, 1919

The Citation

Sources ↓
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.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. William Sawelson — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002660
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
16
Entered service at
Harrison, N.J.
Archive transcription SHA-256
65625f7a3e7b2591265153240fd8fa5a8d46bfce54aa4891866f3aef59efae55

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

Current reference profile confirms Sergeant rank, Company M, 312th Infantry, 78th Division, and the October 26, 1918 Grandpré action. Recovery provenance: the prior live-verification result is reconstructed because the described P10-C060–P10-C062 restart files were not physically available; the verified P10-C059 authority, retained web-reference metadata, legacy record, and prior session evidence are all preserved.

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