Gary Evans Foster

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Gary Evans Foster (ASN: 1311059), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 8 October 1918, while serving with Company F, 118th Infantry, 30th Division, in action at Montbrehain, France. When his company was held up by violent machinegun fire from a sunken road, Sergeant Foster with an officer went forward to attack the hostile machinegun nests. The officer was wounded, but Sergeant Foster continued on alone in the face of the heavy fire and by effective use of hand grenades and his pistol killed several of the enemy and captured 18.