Career
McNally was part of a joint British, American and Samoan expedition against Samoan rebels on Upolu, Samoa in mid-1899. Both McNally"s and Hulbert"s citations incorrectly list them as serving in the Philippines during the time of their distinguished service though they served on United States Ship Philadelphia (C-4), which was never dispatched to fight in the Philippine-American War. McNally joined the Marine Corps from Mare Island, California in December 1897, and retired in January 1915.
On the night of 1 and 2 November 1916, he disappeared from a Baltimore Steam Packet Company steamer.
His body was recovered some three weeks later, and he was buried in Portsmouth, Virginia.
