CREGAN, GEORGE
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Place and date:
On board the U.S.S. Florida, at Vera Cruz, Mexico, 21 April 1914. Entered service at: New
York. Born: 11 December 1885, New York, N.Y. G.O. No.: 101, 15 June
1914.
Citation:
On board the U.S.S. Florida, for
extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession during the seizure of Vera Cruz,
Mexico, 21 April 1914. Cregan was ashore when he volunteered for an assault detail under
Ens. George Maus Lowry on the Vera Cruz Customhouse under enemy fire both in the alley
between the customhouse and warehouse and the assault over objective's walls. During the
move up the alley, he tended a wounded comrade, J. F. Schumaker, holding a compress with
one hand and firing with the other.
