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Rank: Sergeant
Service: Army
Unit: Company M, 312th Infantry, 78th Division
Birthdate: August 5, 1895
Place of Birth: Newark, NJ
Date of Death: October 26, 1918
Battle or Place of Action: Grand-Pre, France
Date of Action: October 27, 1918
Citation: 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 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.
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