According to a report by the Crossville Chronicle, the Military Memorial Museum of Upper Cumberland in Crossville will display Sgt. Milo Lemert’s Congressional Medal of Honor on September 26-27, 2025, coinciding with the eve of the 107th anniversary of his death on September 29, 1918, during World War I in Bellicourt, France, which was also his first wedding anniversary.

Lemert, a first sergeant born in 1890 in Iowa and later a Crossville resident, earned the nation’s highest military honor posthumously for singlehandedly destroying three enemy machine gun nests and attacking a fourth, where he was killed. The medal, donated by his widow Nellie Snodgrass Lemert to the Tennessee State Museum, will be on loan for this event, presented to her in 1919 at the Crossville Courthouse.

The museum will be open special hours (1-6 p.m. on September 26 and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on September 27) for public viewing, with gratitude expressed to One Bank of Tennessee for sponsoring the medal’s return. Lemert, who moved to Crossville in 1911 or 1912, joined the Tennessee National Guard in 1917, married Nellie Snodgrass, and served in the 30th Infantry Division before his burial at Crossville City Cemetery. Visitors can learn more about his bravery at the museum located at 20 S. Main St., Crossville.