Navy Federal Credit Union

Awards Received

  • Medal of Honor

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Watertender

    Division:

    U.S.S. Hopkins

    Action Date:

    February 14, 1910

    War Department, General Orders No. 59, March 23, 1910

    The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Watertender Edward Alvin Clary, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession on board the U.S.S. Hopkins on the occasion of the accident to one of the boilers of that vessel, 14 February 1910.