Emery L. Ntrekin
Born: at Bowdon, Georgia
Home Town: Logan, Alabama
The Navy Cross is presented to Emery L. Entrekin, Private, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession while serving with the First Provisional Brigade of Marines (Gendarmerie d’Haiti), May 19, 1920. With total disregard of personal danger he attacked, with Captain Jesse L. Perkins and two other enlisted men, a band of about seventy-five armed bandits of the Mirebalais District, resulting in the death of the greatest bandit leader, Benoit Batraville, and the practical suppression of banditry throughout the District.
Authority – USMC Communiqué: 154474 (19 May 1922)
