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World War I Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
Sgt. Richmond H. Hilton
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company M, 118th Infantry, 30th Division.
Place and date: At Brancourt, France, 11 October 1918.
Entered service at: Westville, S.C.
Born: 8 October 1898, Westville, S.C. Dec: 1933
G.O. No.: 16, W.D., 1919.
Citation: While Sgt. Hiltons company was advancing through the village of Brancourt it was held up by intense enfilading fire from a machinegun. Discovering that this fire came from a machinegun nest among shell holes at the edge of the town, Sgt. Hilton, accompanied by a few other soldiers, but well in advance of them, pressed on toward this position, firing with his rifle until his ammunition was exhausted, and then with his pistol, killing 6 of the enemy and capturing 10. In the course of this daring exploit he received a wound from a bursting shell, which resulted in the loss of his arm.
Born in 1898 just 6 months after Richmond Hobson's heroic actions during the Spanish American War , RICHMOND HOBSON HILTON received the Medal of Honor during World War I, the only namesake of a Medal of Honor hero to also receive the Medal of Honor.
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