Medal of Honor Recipient

Charles Cawetzka

U.S. Army · Philippine Insurrection

MOH-RC-000470Source-based record

The award

Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1902

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Rank at action: Private
Service: U.S. Army
Conflict: Philippine Insurrection
Unit or command: Company F, 30th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers
Presentation date: March 14, 1902

The Citation

Single-handed, he defended a disabled comrade against a greatly superior force of the enemy.

Sources & record notes

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

Charles Cawetzka — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes

Award ID: MOH-AW-000476
Transcription status: Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check: 2026-08-26
Entered service at: Wayne, Mich.
Archive transcription SHA-256: 8f0021781f04421ef242fb5374893d934865ba22b62a108e2d3cafc3ba6a1c31

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

The current profile supplies the U.S. Volunteers component and replaces the modern Quezon geocoder result with the historical near-Sariaya wording.