Mason D. Eidson
Born: at Owensboro, Kentucky
Home Town: Evansville, Indiana
The Navy Cross is presented to Mason D. Eidson, Trumpeter, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism and fearless devotion to duty on the occasion of the explosions from lightning at the Naval Ammunition Depot, Lake Denmark, N.J., on 10 July 1926. Although he fully realized the imminence of great peril, Trumpeter Eidson continued at his post of duty in an endeavor to check the spread of the disaster, thereby losing his life.
Authority – USMC Communiqué: 170349 (21 October 1926)
