Those with Rear
Admiral Byrd
- Harry Adams
b. New York City, New York, New York, 11 June 1879
- Bernt Balchen
b. Tveit, Vest-Agder, Norway, 23 October 1899
d. Mount Kisco, Westchester, New York, 18 October 1973
- Haldor Barnes
b. Ryde, Denmark, 7 June 1894
d. Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, 13 September 1943
- Leland L. Barter
b. Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, 26 August 1897
d. Portland, Cumberland, Maine, February 1986
- John J. Bayer
b. Hanbury on the Lake, Queens?, New York, 7 July 1887 d. Queens,
Queens, New York, 15 May 1967
- Lloyd Viel Berkner
b. Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1 February 1905
d. Washington, D.C., 4 June 1967
- Arthur M. Berlin
b. Speonk, Suffolk, New York, 16 December 1909
d. Los Angeles County, California, 22 November 1976
- George Hamilton Black
b. Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, 11 July 1898
d. 28 July 1965
- Quin A. Blackburn
b. Crow Wing, Crow Wing, Minnesota, 19 June 1899
d. 8 February 1981
- Christoffer Braathen
b. Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 29 June 1895
d. Oslo Harbor, Oslo, Norway, 1 August 1937
- Gustav L. Brown
b. Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden, 6 June 1892
d. Stapleton, Staten Island, Richmond, New York, 3
December 1950
- Kennard F. Bubier
b. Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, 18 October 1902 d. Orange
County, California, 2 July 1983
- Jacob Bursey
b. St. Lunaire, Newfoundland, Canada, 20 September 1903 d. Shelby,
Oceana, Michigan, 23 March 1980
- John Buys
b. Holland, 24 September 1902 d. Galveston County, Texas, 27 March 1980
- Arnold H. Clarke
b. Greenfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, 5 September 1904 d. New York, 12
March 1976
- Francis Dana Coman
b. New York City, New York, New York, 31 October 1895 d. Ft. Churchill,
Manitoba, Canada, 28 January 1952
- Frederick E. Crockett
b. Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, 20 July 1907 d. Beverly Farms, Essex,
Massachusetts, 17 January 1978
- Victor Hugo Czegka
b. Austria, 21 May 1880 d. Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, 18 February
1973
- Frank T. Davies
b. Merthyr Tydhl, South Wales, 12 August 1904 d. 23 September 1981
- Epaminondas James Demas
b. Corinth, Greece, 31 May 1905 d. Los Angeles County, California, 17
November 1979
- D.S.I. Erickson
- James A. Feury
b. New York City, New York, New York, 7 December 1899 d. New Jersey, 30
December 1977
- Carroll B. Foster, Jr.
b. Norfolk, Virginia, 11 January 1906
- Joe de Ganahl
b. Tampico, Mexico, 2 December 1902 d. Sitka, Sitka, Alaska, 21 July
1943
- Edward E. Goodale
b. Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, 7 April 1903
- Charles F. Gould
b. Clay, Clay, West Virginia, 1 April 1896 d. Marshall County, West
Virginia, July 1977
- Lawrence McKinley Gould
b. Lacota, Van Buren, Michigan, 22 August 1896 d. Tucson, Pima, Arizona,
20 June 1995
- Lloyd K. Grenlie
b. Alban, Portage, Wisconsin, 10 November 1902
William Cassius Haines
b. Reinersville, Morgan, Ohio, 1 February 1887 d. St. Louis, St. Louis,
Missouri, 7 April 1956
- Malcolm Parker Hanson
b. 19 October 1894 d. Aleutian Mountains, Alaska, August 1942
- Henry T. Harrison, Jr.
b. Washington, D.C., 12 December 1903 d. 21 April 1991
- Charles Alan Kenneth Innes-Taylor
b. Little Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England, 12 February 1900 d.
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada, 14 January 1983
- Bendik Johansen
b. Tromso, Norway, 26 June 1889
- Harold I. June
b. Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, 12 February 1895 d. Harford,
Hartford, Connecticut, 22 November 1962
- Charles L. Kessler
b. Washington, D.C., 3 January 1903
- Richard W. Konter
b. Brooklyn, Kings, New York, 8 January 1882 d. Brooklyn, Kings, New
York, 25 August 1979
- Charles E. Lofgren
b. Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, 27 September 1893 d. Washington,
D.C., 26 November 1971
- Howard F. Mason
b. Marion, Shelby, Indiana, 29 October 1901 d. Seattle, Kings,
Washington, 26 June 1996
- Frederick Charles Melville
b. Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, 16 August 1884 d. near Delaware
Breakwater, Atlantic Ocean, 1 March 1935
- Thomas B. Mulroy
b. St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 15 October 1896 d. June 1962
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In The United
States Congress
Friday, 23 May 1930
Joint Resolution Authorizing the presentation of medals
to the officers and men of the Byrd antarctic expedition.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, empowered and directed to
cause to be made at the United States mint such number of gold, silver,
and bronze medals as he may deem appropriate and necessary respectively to
be presented to the officers and men of the Byrd antarctic expedition to
express the high admiration in which the Congress and the American people
hold their heroic and undaunted services in connection with the scientific
investigations and extraordinary aerial explorations of the Antarctic
Continent, under the personal direction of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd,
said medals to be suitably inscribed.
SEC. 2. That such amount as may be necessary for the cost of said
medals is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
46 Stat. 379
Notes:
There are no people listed in this Act except for Rear Admiral Richard
Byrd. He personally chose who would receive the medals and The New York
Times of 3 August 1931 page 19 prints the listing of the gold, silver,
and bronze medal expedition members. According to CRS Report RL30076,
there were 67 medals minted (25), but according to this list, 66 were
given out. Without a definitive list from the Naval Office, this is the
best list available at this time.
- Charles John
McGuinness
b. Londonderry, Ireland, 6 March 1893
d. near Mizen Head, near Arklow, County Wexford, Ireland, 3 December
1947
- Ashley Chadbourne McKinley
b. Marshall, Harrison, Texas, 23 June 1896 d. Clearwater, Pinellas,
Florida, 11 February 1970
- Frank McPherson
b. Camden County, North Carolina, 3 October 1888 d. Bayonne, Hudson, New
Jersey, 18 February 1936
- Esmonde M. O'Brien
b. New York City, New York, New York, 31 March 1891 d. New York City,
New York, New York, 27 November 1966
- John Sherman O'Brien
b. Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, 18 August 1899 d. 6 December 1938
- Russell Owen
b. Chicago, Cook, Illinois, 8 January 1889 d. Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio,
3 April 1952
- Alton N. Parker
b. Hazelhurst, Berrien, Missouri, 12 July 1895 d. Miami, Dade, Florida,
30 November 1942
- A. Walker Perkins
b. Chillicothe, Livingston, Missouri, 18 January 1898 d. Kenosha County,
Wisconsin, November 1976
- Carl O. Petersen
b. Borre, Norway, 14 July 1897 d. 10 November 1941
- Louis Reichart
b. 11 November 1889
- Martin Ronne
b. Hamar, Norway, 15 September 1861 d. Horton, Norway, 23 May 1932
- Benjamin Roth
b. New York, 5 January 1892 d. Queens County, New York, September 1967
- Joseph T. Rucker
b. Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, 1 January 1887 d. San Francisco, San
Francisco, California, 21 October 1957
- Ralph F. Shropshire
b. New York City, New York, New York, 12 January 1903 d. Berkeley
County, West Virginia, March 1968
- Paul Allman Siple
b. Montpelier, Williams, Ohio, 18 December 1908 d. Arlington, Arlington,
Virginia, 25 November 1968
- Dean Cullom Smith
b. Cove, Union, Oregon, 27 September 1899 d. Maryland, 4 March 1987
- Sverre Strom
b. Tromso, Norway, 2 February 1898 d. Camp Carson, Colorado Springs, El
Paso, Colorado, 15 June 1950
- John L. Sutton
b. Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, 4 February 1900 d. Hudson County, New
Jersey, November 1972
- Harold L. Tapley
- George W. Tennant
b. Manistee, Manistee, Michigan, 7 March 1882 d. Manistee, Manistee,
Michigan, 15 February 1953
- Elbert J. Thawley
b. Denton, Caroline, Maryland, 10 July 1898 d. Jacksonville, Cherokee,
Texas, 14 March 1973
- George A. Thorne, Jr.
b. Winnetka, Cook, Illinois, 20 December 1901 d. Harrisville, Cheshire,
New Hampshire, 7 September 1939
- Willard Van der Veer
b. Brooklyn, Kings, New York, 23 August 1894 d. June 1963
- Norman D. Vaughan
b. 19 December 1905
- Vaclav Vojtech
b. Prague, Czechoslovakia, abt. 1900 d. Elbe River, Germany, 6 August
1932
- Arthur T. Walden
b. Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, 10 May 1871 d. Wonalancet, Carroll,
New Hampshire, 26 March 1947
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