George Cregan

Coxswain · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

21 April 1914 · the U S S Florida, at Vera Cruz, Mexico

Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: Expeditions, 1871–1933
Home state: New York
Action: the U S S Florida, at Vera Cruz, Mexico

The citation

Official citation

On board the U.S.S. Florida, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession during the seizure of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 21 April 1914. Cregan was ashore when he volunteered for an assault detail under Ens. George Maus Lowry on the Vera Cruz Customhouse under enemy fire both in the alley between the customhouse and warehouse and the assault over objective's walls. During the move up the alley, he tended a wounded comrade, J. F. Schumaker, holding a compress with one hand and firing with the other.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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