Walter S. Crosley

The Navy Cross is presented to Walter S. Crosley, Captain, U.S. Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Naval Attaché at Petrograd, and for conducting a party of Americans out of Russia in April, 1918, under difficult and trying conditions. Later, from March 1918, to the conclusion of the war, as Naval Attaché at Madrid, Captain Crosley’s services were of a high order.