Volume 47
Private Law 72–47
To authorize the presentation of a medal of honor, posthumously, to the late Henry Clay Drexler and the late George Robert Cholister.
Approved February 9, 1933
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the presentation of a medal of honor, posthumously, to the late Henry Clay Drexler and the late George Robert Cholister.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President
Henry Clay Drexler and George Robert Cholister.
Medals of honor awarded to.
is authorized to present a medal of honor, posthumously, to the late Henry Clay Drexler, former ensign, United States Navy, and the late George Robert Cholister, boatswain’s mate, first class, United States Navy, for their heroic action in endeavoring to submerge a charge of powder in an immersion tank on the occasion of a fire in the forward turret of the United States Steamship Trenton, wherein they met their death in a supreme effort to save their shipmates. That said medals of honor may be presented to the nearest next of kin of said deceased, respectively, living at the date of the enactment of this Act.
Approved, February 9, 1933.