Francis Moore

Boatswain's Mate · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

23 January 1882 · Place not recorded

Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: Peacetime and other actions
Home state: New York
Action: Francis Moore, 23 January 1882

The citation

Official citation

For jumping overboard from the U.S. Training Ship Portsmouth, at the Washington Navy Yard, 23 January 1882, and endeavoring to rescue Thomas Duncan, carpenter and calker, who had fallen overboard.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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