UPTON, FRANK MONROE - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Quartermaster, U.S. Navy. Born: 29 April 1896,
Loveland, Colo. Accredited to: Colorado. G.O. No.: 403, 1918. Citation:
For extraordinary heroism following internal explosion of the Florence
H, on 17 April 1918. The sea in the vicinity of wreckage was covered by
a mass of boxes of smokeless powder, which were repeatedly exploding. Frank
M. Upton, of the U.S.S. Stewart, plunged overboard to rescue a survivor
who was surrounded by powder boxes and too exhausted to help himself. Fully
realizing the danger from continual explosion of similar powder boxes in
the vicinity, he risked his life to save the life of this man.
This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)
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