BONNEY, ROBERT EARL
Rank and Organization: Chief Watertender, U.S.
Navy, U.S.S. Hopkins. Place and date: Aboard U.S.S. Hopkins, 14 February 1910. Entered
Service At: Nashville, Tenn. Birth: Tennessee.
Citation:
While serving on board the U.S.S. Hopkins, Bonney
displayed extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession on the occasion of the
accident to one of the boilers of that vessel, 14 February 1910.