Charles Burnett

The Navy Cross is awarded to Boatswain’s Mate First Class Charles Burnett, U.S. Navy, for extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty as a member of a party of volunteers under Lieutenant Connolly, which went on board the U.S.S. Westbridge after that vessel had been torpedoed on August 15, 1918, and remained on board under difficult conditions, until the vessel was brought into port.