_Sawelson, William, Sergeant_, Co. —, 312th Infantry, 78th Division,
Harrison, N. J.—Grandpré, France, Oct. 26, 1918. Hearing a wounded
man in a shell hole some distance away calling for water, Sergeant
Sawelson, upon his own initiative, left shelter and crawled through
heavy machine-gun 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
machine-gun bullet.