Rear Admiral Edgar Brown Larimer

Rear Admiral Edgar Brown Larimer

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Navy Cross Citation:

The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Captain Edgar Brown Larimer, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. New Orleans, engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of transporting and escorting troops and supplies through waters infested with enemy submarines and mines during World War I.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, July 19, 1951

Rear Admiral Edgar Brown Larimer, USN retired, died today in the U.S. Naval Hospital at Key West, Florida. Larimer, 74, was a resident of Charlottesville, Virginia. Funeral services were conducted at the grave in Arlington National Cemetery Wednesday at 3pm.

A native of Tipton, Missouri, Larimer graduated from United States Naval Academy in 1899, after having served as a midshipman on the USS Indiana in the Spanish American War. He also served in the Philippines insurrection in 1902.

Larimer attained the rank of Captain during World War I, and after a tour of duty in the Orient, commanded the Naval Torpedo Station in Alexandria, VA, 1921-23. He was Chief of Staff of the Scouting Fleet, 1923-24, and later commanded the Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island.

As skipper of the USS New Mexico from 1927 to 1929 he saw the battleship twice win the Navy's coveted "meat ball" pennant for excellence in battle efficiency. In 1929 he became Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Navigation and in 1931 was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. He retired from this post in 1934,

Admiral Larimer was the recipient of the Navy Cross and the War Cross of Czechoslovakia. The latter was awarded for his work with the Czech army when it was ready for repatriation from Vladivostok in 1920.

Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Mary Fisher Bradford Burwell, daughter of Rear Admiral William Turnbull Burwell, USN: a daughter, Mrs. Richard Royston Fell, and a granddaughter, all of Charlottesville.