Walter Elmore

Landsman · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

October 1878 · USS Gettysburg

Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: Peacetime and other actions
Action: USS Gettysburg

The citation

Official citation

On board the U.S.S. Gettysburg; for jumping overboard and saving from drowning Wallace Febrey, landsman, while that vessel was under way at sea in latitude 36 degrees 58 minutes north, longitude 3 degrees 44 minutes east, I October 1878.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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