William J. Kilgore, Jr.

The Navy Cross is presented to William J. Kilgore, Jr., Pharmacist’s Mate First Class, U.S. Navy, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service during an epidemic of Spanish Influenza in Santo Domingo, while in the field with the Thirty-Third Company, U.S. Marine Corps. Kilgore was the only assistant to the Marine Corps doctor and continued to administer to the sick, having a fever of 102 and 103, but would not give in. As a result of his splendid work not one man died. The services rendered were nothing short of marvelous.