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Service Profile
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Landsman
- Medals Recorded
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Awards & Decorations
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Biography
He saved a drowning shipmate while his ship was still at sea
Walter Elmore earned the Medal of Honor for rescuing a fellow sailor at sea on October 1, 1878. A Navy landsman aboard USS Gettysburg, he jumped overboard while the ship was underway off the coast of Algeria and saved Landsman Wallace Febrey from drowning.
Born in England in 1857, Elmore’s service was accredited to Toulon, France. His official citation records the rescue and the ship’s position at the time. His award preserves the recognition of a decisive lifesaving act during peacetime naval service.
Medal of Honor 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 three degrees 44 minutes east, 1 October 1878.
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