WWI · Battle Death Record
Weedon E. Osborne
Lieutenant (Junior Grade), U.S. Navy · Illinois
Medal of Honor
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Weedon E. Osborne
- Entered the Service From
- Illinois
- Rank
- Lieutenant (Junior Grade)
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Unit / Regiment
- Dental Corps, attached to 6th Marine Regiment
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- June 6, 1918
- Awards
- Medal of Honor
- Burial / Memorial
- Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial, Belleau, France
Their story
A Navy dental surgeon who ran into fire to carry wounded Marines to safety at Belleau Wood and was killed doing so on 6 June 1918. One of the first naval officers to receive the Medal of Honor in the First World War.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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