Medal of Honor Recipient. He received the Medal of Honor for service during the Haitian Campaign. According to the citation, “On the night of October 31, 1919, he served as a Second Lieutenant, United States Marine Corps in command of a detachment that was in a conflict with the enemy near Grande Riviere, Republic of Haiti. Under his leadership, he led his men into the rebel camp of Charlemagne Peralte, the supreme bandit chief, which resulted in the killing and capture of 1200 outlaws to include the death of Péralte. The success of this mission proved to be of untold value to the Republic of Haiti.” For extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry, he was awarded the Medal of Honor in June of 1920. He started his military career as an enlisted man serving in the Banana Wars of the 1910s and 1920s in Central and South America. After the conflict at Grande Riviere, he served in Haiti for several more months and was awarded the Navy Cross for killing yet another rebel leader. He received another Navy Cross for his actions during the occupation of Nicaragua in the late 1920s. He also served in World War I, World War II and retired a Brigadier General in July of 1948. He died in a veterans hospital in California. Of 330 Marines, which landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti at the command of United States Woodrow Wilson in the Haitian Campaign in 1915, nine received the Medal of Honor.
Medal of Honor Recipient. He received the Medal of Honor for service during the Haitian Campaign. According to the citation, “On the night of October 31, 1919, he served as a Second Lieutenant, United States Marine Corps in command of a detachment that was in a conflict with the enemy near Grande Riviere, Republic of Haiti. Under his leadership, he led his men into the rebel camp of Charlemagne Peralte, the supreme bandit chief, which resulted in the killing and capture of 1200 outlaws to include the death of Péralte. The success of this mission proved to be of untold value to the Republic of Haiti.” For extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry, he was awarded the Medal of Honor in June of 1920. He started his military career as an enlisted man serving in the Banana Wars of the 1910s and 1920s in Central and South America. After the conflict at Grande Riviere, he served in Haiti for several more months and was awarded the Navy Cross for killing yet another rebel leader. He received another Navy Cross for his actions during the occupation of Nicaragua in the late 1920s. He also served in World War I, World War II and retired a Brigadier General in July of 1948. He died in a veterans hospital in California. Of 330 Marines, which landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti at the command of United States Woodrow Wilson in the Haitian Campaign in 1915, nine received the Medal of Honor.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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