WWI · Battle Death Record
Gustaf Sundquist
Chief Special Mechanic, U.S. Navy · New York
Medal of Honor
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Gustaf Sundquist
- Entered the Service From
- New York
- Rank
- Chief Special Mechanic
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Unit / Regiment
- U.S. Naval Reserve Force, Naval Air Station Croix d'Hins (Fort Lafayette), France
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- August 25, 1918
- Awards
- Medal of Honor
- Burial / Memorial
- Commemorated on the Tablets of the Missing, Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial
- Grave
- Wall of the Missing (Tablets of the Missing)
Their story
Sundquist earned the Medal of Honor as an ordinary seaman aboard USS Nashville for extraordinary bravery and coolness under heavy enemy fire during the cutting of the submarine cable off Cienfuegos, Cuba, on 11 May 1898. He rejoined the Navy in WWI as a Chief Special Mechanic in the Naval Reserve, and on 25 August 1918 he accidentally drowned while swimming offshore near the Naval Air Station at Croix d'Hins, France; his body was never recovered.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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