William Oakley (Medal of Honor)
William Oakley was a gunner's mate second class serving in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.Biography
Oakley was born on 31 August 1857 at 5 Hanover Street, Aberdeen, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States in April 1880. He enlisted in the Navy at Boston in November 1880 and was sent to fight in the Spanish–American War aboard the U.S.S. Marblehead as a gunner's mate second class. He was later promoted to gunner's mate first class.
He returned to England after 1911 as a US Navy pensioner and died 22 November 1918 in Wivenhoe, Essex, England. He was buried in the Old Cemetery.
In 2018 the US government erected a headstone at his grave which had previously been unmarked.Medal of Honor citation
