Cuban Pacification Medal (Navy)

Cuban Pacification Medal (Navy)
Obverse (left), Marine Corps reverse (center), and Navy reverse (right)
TypeService medal
Awarded forService in the Cuban Pacification
Presented byDepartment of the Navy
StatusObsolete
Established13 August 1909
Ribbon
Precedence
Next (higher)China Campaign Medal[1]
EquivalentCuban Pacification Medal (Army)
Next (lower)Nicaraguan Campaign Medal[1]

The Cuban Pacification Medal (Navy) is a military award of the United States Navy which was created by orders of the United States Navy Department on 13 August 1909. The medal was awarded to officers and enlisted men who served ashore in Cuba between 12 September 1906 and 1 April 1909, or who were attached to a specific number of ships, for the Cuban Pacification.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Wearing of decorations, medals, badged and ribbons" (PDF). All Hands (365): 35. July 1947.
  2. ^ United States Navy Dept (1918). General Orders of Navy Department, series of 1913 Orders Remaining in Force Up to January 29, 1918. Washington: Government Printing Office. p. 216.