Albert V. Horton

Navy Cross

World War I

U.S. Coast Guard

The Navy Cross is presented to Albert V. Horton, Quarter Master, U.S. Coast Guard, for extraordinary heroism on the occasion of the explosion of the T. A. Gillespie shell-loading plant on Oct. 4 and 5, 1918, in assisting in the removal from the danger zone of valuable carloads of high explosives within close proximity to exploding ammunition dumps.