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Peacetime and interim
John Morris
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Marine Corps
25 December 1881 · Villefranche, France
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Era
- Peacetime and other actions
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- Villefranche, France
The citation
Official citation
For leaping overboard from the U.S. Flagship Lancaster, at Villefranche, France, 25 December 1881, and rescuing from drowning Robert Blizzard, ordinary seaman, a prisoner, who had jumped overboard.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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