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Medal of Honor Recipient

Arthur J. Forrest

U.S. Army · World War I

MOH-RC-001942Source-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: 1919

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Representative form selected from the recorded presentation year (1919), not authenticated medal-object provenance.

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Medal of Honor

November 1, 1918

near Remonville, France

Rank at action
Sergeant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
Company D, 354th Infantry, 89th Division
Presentation date
December 31, 1919

The Citation

Sources ↓
When the advance of his company was stopped by bursts of fire from a nest of 6 enemy machineguns, without being discovered, he worked his way single-handed to a point within 50 yards of the machinegun nest. Charging, single-handed, he drove out the enemy in disorder, thereby protecting the advance platoon from annihilating fire, and permitting the resumption of the advance of his company.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Arthur J. Forrest — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-30

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. Arthur J. Forrest — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-30

    official action date, place, citation text, and published General Order reference

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-001951
Transcription status
Conflicting official citation variants preserved
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
50
Other source date wording
1919-11-01
Entered service at
Hannibal, Mo.
Archive transcription SHA-256
703ef4baefd4dd9cbcbd800bb516287f27c1b41359595d646792e4bf4eb0d66a

Official institutional sources disagree on a citation detail. The inherited canonical wording and the current Society wording are retained separately with supporting source records; no silent overwrite was performed.

The current reference profile renders the action date as November 1, 1919. The inherited record and official U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index identify November 1, 1918. The 1918 date remains canonical while the Society rendering is preserved as a conflicting current-official-source value; no General Order verification is claimed. The canonical current reference profile was resolved through a controlled archival reference search outside the inherited candidate set. Every inherited candidate remains preserved in the audit trail; candidate rank and URL availability were not treated as verification. The current source corrects the inherited typographical form Arhtur J. Forrest to Arthur J. Forrest; the imported form remains preserved in provenance. The current profile supplies rank at time of action as Sergeant; the inherited rank field remains preserved as None. The current historical action-place wording replaces only the controlled canonical geocoder field; the complete inherited place remains preserved. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under World War I; the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record.

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