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Surnames: CASTLE
Classification: Military
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JFI.2ACIB/883
Message Board Post:
Source:
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm
Note: This is not my ancestry. I have NO additional information. I am just passing along
information that may be useful.
CASTLE, GUY WILKINSON STUART
Rank and organization: Lieutenant, U.S. Navy. Born: 8 February 1880. Appointed from:
Wisconsin. G.O. No.: 177, 4 December 1915. Citation: For distinguished conduct in battle,
engagements of Vera Cruz, 21 and 22 April 1914. Eminent and conspicuous in command of his
battalion, Lt. Castle was in the fighting of both days, and exhibited courage and skill in
leading his men through action. In seizing the customhouse, he encountered for many hours
the heaviest and most pernicious concealed fire of the entire day, but his courage and
coolness under trying conditions were marked.
Burial: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
Born: 1879
Died: 1919
Additional Information and cemetery monument photo:
http://www.homeofheroes.com/gravesites/arlington/castle_guy.html