Laddie Stupka MOH

b. 04/03/1878 Cleveland, Ohio. d. 20/02/1946 ?

DATE OF MOH ACTION: 21/01/1903 on the rocks of Block Island, Rhode Island.

US Navy Peacetime Medal of Honor Recipient. He was issued the Medal of Honor on December 26, 1903, for his actions as a first-class fireman with the Navy tug USS “Leyden” on January 21, 1903. On that date, it was returning from Puerto Rico when it ran aground and sank in a heavy fog near Block Island, Rhode Island.

 

MOH CITATION:

Serving on board the U.S.S. Leyden; for heroism at the time of the wreck of that vessel, 21 January 1903.

 

BURIAL LOCATION: BALTIMORE NATIONAL CEMETERY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SECTION DS, GRAVE 1.

LOCATION OF MEDAL: UNKNOWN.