George Cregan

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Coxswain George Cregan, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession on board the U.S.S. Florida, during the seizure of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 21 April 1914. Coxswain Cregan was ashore when he volunteered for an assault detail under Ensign George Maus Lowry on the Vera Cruz Customhouse under enemy fire both in the alley between the customhouse and warehouse and the assault over objective’s walls. During the move up the alley, he tended a wounded comrade, J. F. Schumaker, holding a compress with one hand and firing with the other.

The Navy Cross is presented to George Cregan, Commanding Officer, U.S. Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Sagamore throughout the salvage operations of the Submarine S-4, which sank off Provincetown, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1927.