GREGORY, EARL D. - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Headquarters Company, 116th
Infantry, 29th Division. Place and date: At Bois-de-Consenvoye, north of
Verdun, France, 8 October 1918. Entered service at: Chase City, Va. Birth:
Chase City, Va. G.O. No.: 34, W.D., 1919. Citation: With the remark "I
will get them," Sgt. Gregory seized a rifle and a trench-mortar shell,
which he used as a handgrenade, left his detachment of the trench-mortar
platoon, and advancing ahead of the infantry, captured a machinegun and
3 of the enemy. Advancing still farther from the machinegun nest, he captured
a 7.5-centimeter mountain howitzer and, entering a dugout in the immediate
vicinity, single-handedly captured 19 of the enemy.
This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)
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