Charles L. Wright

Navy Cross

World War I

U.S. Coast Guard

The Navy Cross is presented to Charles L. Wright, Gunner, 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.