"For especially meritorious conduct, devotion to duty, and utter disregard of personal safety, while in imminent contact with enemy forces and under attack from enemy aircraft, in caring for and evacuating the wounded of the United States Navy under his charge in Java, Netherlands East Indies, about March 1, 1942."

Genealogical Information

• Corydon M Wassell was born on the July 4 1884, at Little Rock, Arkansas.
• He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1909 and practiced medicine in Tillar, Arkansas.
• He served in Wuchang China in 1913.
• He served with the United States Navy Reserve in 1936.
• He died on the 12th May 1958 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetary.
• The Wassell family came from Kidderminster, England.