Francis K. Gundlach

The Navy Cross is awarded to Ensign Francis K. Gundlach, U.S. Navy (Reserve Forces), for distinguished service in the line of his profession for remaining on board the U.S.S. Idomenequs, on which he was detailed a signalmaster, after that ship had been torpedoed by an enemy submarine, and abandoned by her crew, when it was found that there was a possibility of her remaining afloat.