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Photo # NH 103764:  Seaman Joseph Noil

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Seaman Joseph Noil, USN, (1841-????)

Joseph Noil was born in 1841 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He enlisted in the US Navy from New York. While serving on USS Powhatan at Norfolk, Virginia on 26 December 1872, Noil saved drowning shipmate, Boatswain J.C. Walton. For his conduct on this occasion, he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

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Photo #: NH 103764

Seaman Joseph Noil


U.S. Navy Poster photographed in 1970. Seaman Joseph Noil received the Medal of Honor for saving a drowning USS Powhatan shipmate, Boatswain J.C. Walton, at Norfolk, Virginia on 26 December 1872.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Medal of Honor citation of Seaman Joseph Noil (as printed in the official publication "Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy", page 66):

"Serving on board the U.S.S. Powhatan at Norfolk, 26 December 1872, Noil saved Boatswain J.C. Walton from drowning."


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