Peacetime Medal of Honor Recipient. He entered the US Marine Corps at New York. He served as a Corporal. His citation reads "For leaping overboard from the US Flagship Lancaster, at Villefranche, France 25 December 1881, and rescuing from drowning Robert Blizzard, ordinary seaman, a prisoner, who had jumped overboard." He enlisted in the Marines on November of 1880 in Brooklyn, New York and was discharged April 20, 1895.
Peacetime Medal of Honor Recipient. He entered the US Marine Corps at New York. He served as a Corporal. His citation reads "For leaping overboard from the US Flagship Lancaster, at Villefranche, France 25 December 1881, and rescuing from drowning Robert Blizzard, ordinary seaman, a prisoner, who had jumped overboard." He enlisted in the Marines on November of 1880 in Brooklyn, New York and was discharged April 20, 1895.
Bio by: Don Morfe
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