*HIDELL, MARIE LOUISE
Reserve Nurse, U.S. Navy (RF)
Nurse Corps
Date of Action: 1918
Citation:
The Navy Cross is presented to Marie Louise Hidell, Reserve Nurse,
U.S. Navy, for distinguished service and devotion to duty while
serving at the Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. During the epidemic
of influenza, (she) worked day and night among the patients until
stricken with the disease, as a result of which she lost her life on
September 28, 1918.
MCGUIRE, LEE W.
Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy
U.S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, MA
Date of Action: 1918 - 1919
Citation:
The Navy Cross is presented to Lee W. McGuire, Lieutenant Commander,
U.S. Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession
while serving at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., in
developing a convalescent influenza-pneumonia serum, which has proved
of very great value in reducing mortality from 38 to 4 per cent, and
for general service at the hospital.
*MILLER, CAREY F.
Hospital Apprentice First Class, U.S. Navy (R)
Naval Base Hospital, Hampton Roads, VA
Date of Action: 1918 - 1919
Citation:
The Navy Cross is presented to Carey F. Miller, Hospital Apprentice
First Class, U.S. Navy, for distinguished service and devotion to duty
while serving in the Naval Base Hospital at Hampton Roads. During an
epidemic of influenza he worked day and night amongst the patients
until stricken with the disease as a result of which he lost his life.
*MURPHY, LILILAN M.
Nurse, U.S. Navy
Nurse Corps
Date of Action: 1918
Citation:
The Navy Cross is presented to Lililan M. Murphy, Nurse, U.S. Navy,
for distinguished service and devotion to duty while serving at the
Naval Base Hospital, Hampton Roads, Va. During the epidemic of
influenza, (she) worked day and night among the patients until
stricken with the disease, as a result of which she lost her life.
*PLACE, EDNA E.
Nurse, U.S. Navy
Nurse Corps
Date of Action: 1918
Citation:
The Navy Cross is presented to Edna E. Place, Nurse, U.S. Navy, for
distinguished service and devotion to duty, while serving at the Naval
Hospital, Philadelphia, a. During the epidemic of influenza (she)
worked day and night among the patients until stricken with the
disease, as a result of which she lost her life on September 25, 1918.
POYER, JOHN M.
Commander, U.S. Navy
Governor, American Samoa
Date of Action: 1918 - 1919
Citation:
The Navy Cross is presented to John M. Poyer, Commander, U.S. Navy,
for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great
responsibility as governor of American Samoa, for wise and successful
administration of his office and especially for the extraordinarily
successful measures by which American Samoa was kept absolutely immune
from the epidemic of influenza at a time when in the neighboring
islands of the Samoan group more than 10,000 deaths occurred, and when
the percentage of deaths throughout the Polynesian Islands as a group,
is reported to have ranged from 30 to 40 per cent of the population.
REDDEN, WILLIAM R.
Lieutenant (MC), U.S. Navy
U.S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, MA
Date of Action: 1918 - 1919
Citation:
The Navy Cross is presented to William R. Redden, Lieutenant (MC),
U.S. Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession
while serving at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., in
developing a convalescent influenza-pneumonia serum, which has proven
of very great value in reducing mortality from 38 to 4 per cent, and
for general service at the hospital.
