Harold W. Roberts
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
Died when: 22 years 357 days (275 months)Star Sign: Libra
Harold William Roberts (October 14, 1895 – October 6, 1918) was a United States Army corporal and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War I.
Roberts, a tank driver, was moving his tank into a clump of bushes to afford protection to another tank which had become disabled.
The tank slid into a shell hole, 10 feet deep, filled with water, and was immediately submerged.Knowing that only one of the two men in the tank could escape, Cpl.
Roberts said to the gunner, "Well, only one of us can get out, and out you go," whereupon he pushed his companion through the back door of the tank and drowned.
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