George Dilboy

George Dilboy , , Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company H, 103d Infantry, 26th Division is thought to be the first GreekAmerican to receive the Medal of Honor during World War I. He led an attack on a machine gun position and continued to fire at the enemy despite being seriously wounded, killing two of the enemy and dispersing the remainder of the gun crew. General John Pershing listed George Dilboy as one of the ten great heroes who died in the battlefield of France with superhuman heroism and valor. Dilboy is buried in Sectionof Arlington National Cemetery.

Dilboy was born in the Greek settlement of Alatsata, in Ottoman Turkey in Asia Minor, near Smyrna. His father emigrated to the United States in 1908, and George later joined him in 1910, settling first in Somerville, Massachusetts. But Dilboy went to Greece in 1912 where he volunteered to fight in the Greek Army in Thessaly during the First Balkan War of 191213. He remained there to successfully fight in Macedonia in the Second Balkan War of 1913.

Source: Wikipedia