Medal of Honor
July 13, 1900
near Tientsin, China
- Rank at action
- Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- China Relief Expedition
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Monadnock
The Citation
Sources ↓Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Alexander Joseph Foley — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-30
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- Alexander Joseph Foley — Naval History and Heritage Command ↗Naval History and Heritage Command · Checked 2026-08-30
official Navy Department Medal of Honor index identification of Alexander Joseph Foley, rank, service, Tientsin action place, and 13 July 1900 action date
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-002337
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 55
- Other source date wording
- 1900-06-21
- Later or highest recorded rank
- First Sergeant
- Accredited to
- Pennsylvania
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- d3debfcf24bb587d869b06873d47a7a4ae50c1cbab5a4aa7cc390dcfb7d333b8
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The inherited rank-1 Society candidate was confirmed by substantive comparison of identity, service, rank, unit or command, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The action rank Sergeant remains distinct from the later or highest rank First Sergeant. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Monadnock; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Monadnock, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1900-07-13 and classifies the action under China Relief Expedition; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is near Tientsin, China; the current structured place near Tientsin, China and the complete inherited geocoder value Tianjin, Tianjin, China remain preserved in the audit evidence. The Society structured action date is 1900-06-21; additional or conflicting date context in the rendered citation is preserved separately. The Society structured field gives June 21, 1900, while its rendered citation and the Naval History and Heritage Command Boxer Rebellion Medal of Honor index identify July 13, 1900. July 13 is retained as the controlled canonical action date, and both official renderings remain preserved. The inherited full citation remains canonical and checksum-protected; current rendered wording is preserved separately where transcribed. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.