Education
A Chicago native, Weedon Osborne graduated from Northwestern University Dental School in 1915.
A Chicago native, Weedon Osborne graduated from Northwestern University Dental School in 1915.
He was appointed a United States. Navy Dental Surgeon with the rank of Lieutenant, Junior Grade, on May 8, 1917. He was assigned duty with the 6th Marine Regiment on March 26, 1918. During the Battle of Belleau Wood, Osborne"s unit participated in the advance on Bouresches, France, about a mile southeast of Belleau Wood.
Osborne sought to aid the wounded during the battle and was killed while attempting to carry an injured officer to safety on June 6, 1918.
Weedon Osborne was 25 years old at the time of his death. He was buried in Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.
The museum acquired the medal in 2003 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had confiscated it the year before after someone had attempted to sell the medal in South Carolina. The destroyer United States Ship Osborne (Doctor of Divinity-295), which served during the 1920s, was named for Lieutenant Osborne.