Calvin John Ward

Calvin John Ward , was a soldier in the United States Army National Guard who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War I.

Calvin John Ward was born on October 30, in 1899 in Greene County, Tennessee and lived in Morristown, Tennessee. Ward entered active duty with the United States Armys 117th Regiment from the Tennessee National Guard during World War I. On October 8, 1918 during the MeuseArgonne Offensive, Wards company was stopped near Estres, France by a German machine gun position. Ward and Sergeant James Ernest Karnes, deciding they had had all they could take of this situation, fixed bayonets, charged and captured the position. This freed their company to advance against German lines in the last major offensive of the war. Both men received the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism in this action.

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