The President of the United States
in the name of
The Congress
takes pleasure in presenting the

Medal of Honor

to

 

ELMORE, WALTER

Rank and Organization: Landsman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1857, England. Enlisted at: Toulon, France.

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.

 

 

 

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