Frank Monroe Upton

Quartermaster · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

17 April 1918 · USS Stewart

Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: World War I
Home state: Colorado
Action: USS Stewart

The citation

Official citation

For extraordinary heroism following internal explosion of the Florence H, on 17 April 1918. The sea in the vicinity of wreckage was covered by a mass of boxes of smokeless powder, which were repeatedly exploding. Frank M. Upton, of the U.S.S. Stewart, plunged overboard to rescue a survivor who was surrounded by powder boxes and too exhausted to help himself. Fully realizing the danger from continual explosion of similar powder boxes in the vicinity, he risked his life to save the life of this man.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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