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Medal of Honor Recipient

Antoine August Gaujot

U.S. Army · Philippine Insurrection

MOH-RC-000481Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1904 Army design, early suspension ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1911

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Medal of Honor

December 19, 1899

San Mateo, Luzon, Philippine Islands

Rank at action
Corporal
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Philippine Insurrection
Unit or command
Company M, 27th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers
Presentation date
February 15, 1911

The Citation

Sources ↓
Attempted under a heavy fire of the enemy to swim a river for the purpose of obtaining and returning with a canoe.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Antoine August Gaujot — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000487
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Entered service at
Williamson, W. Va.
Archive transcription SHA-256
d5432a24682222cb971d8c085e27967a60f3662313e122b9c3e678a6a224e421

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The current profile expands the middle name, supplies the U.S. Volunteers component, and replaces the inherited California geocoder result with San Mateo, Luzon.