Charles E. Turner
Born: at Bedford, Indiana
Home Town: Terre Haute, Indiana
Authority - USMC Communiqué: 204286 ACE-jfb (9 May 1928)
The Navy Cross is presented to Charles E. Turner, Private, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism, coolness and excellent judgment in the performance of duty as a member of the advanced guard of a small Marine expedition in an engagement near Quilali, Nicaragua, on 30 December 1927. Although seriously wounded in the early stages of the fighting, Private Turner soon regained consciousness, crawled to a point of vantage, and continued to fire until he fainted from pain and lost of blood.
