Exhibition Honoring WW I Hero Sgt. Henry Johnson to Open Nov. 9

 

An exhibit posthumously honoring Sgt. Henry Johnson, an Albany resident whose World War I heroism was finally recognized with the award of the Medal of Honor this year, will be opened in the War Room of the State Capital Monday, Nov. 9 by Major General Patrick Murphy, the Adjutant General of New York.

Major General Murphy will be joined at the 11 a.m. ceremony by Division of Veterans Affairs Director Eric Hesse and local officials. 

The Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously to Sgt. Henry Johnson by President Barack Obama on June 2, 2015. Major General Patrick Murphy will also present New York’s highest military award, The Medal for Valor, posthumously to Johnson. The medal will be received on his behalf by New York Army National Guard Command Sgt. Major Anthony McLean, the Command Sgt. Major of the 369^th Sustainment Brigade, the unit which carries the lineage and honor of the 369^th Infantry Regiment, the Harlem Hellfighters, in which Henry Johnson served in 1918.

Source: Press Office, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo