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Show MEDAL OF HONOR MEN GUESTS Wearers of Congressional Decorations Will Be Prominent at Legion National Convention. Prominent among the distinguished guests at the American Legion nation,- i al convention In New Orleans, October Oc-tober 10-20, will be wearers of the c ongress ional medal of honor, the highest award for bravery made by the United States. Lieut. Sydney Syd-ney G. Gumpertz of New York was the first medal of honor man to accept ac-cept the convention conven-tion invitation. The citation of Lieutenant Gumpertz Gum-pertz came as a result of an act of heroism while serving as a sergeant with the One Hundred Thirty-semnd Infantry in the Bois de Forges, September Sep-tember 26, 1918. Advancing under hostile machine gun fire, Gumpertz killed two German gunners with pistol fire and the remaining re-maining 14 members of the crew surrendered. sur-rendered. About thirty minutes after this exploit the platoon was again held up by German machine gun nests. Volunteers were asked for to silence the guns- Gumpertz, a corporal and a private volunteered and the trio advanced ad-vanced In single file. Encountering the enemy's barrage, the two companions of Gumpertz were killed by a shell, but Gumpertz continued con-tinued to advance alone on the nest by the flank and located It. He then threw into it a Mills hand grenade and killed and wounded several members of the crew. The remaining 16 members mem-bers surrendered themselves and the two heavy-type machine guns. The action of Sergeant Gumpertz enabled his unit to continue the advance. |