Medal of Honor
July 13, 1900
Tientsin, China
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion)
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Solace
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Clarence Edward Mathias — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-30
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-002513
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 55
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Sergeant Major
- Accredited to
- Pennsylvania
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- b65676232ae4e07271c8b8bf527fceef20af4d1fe372f6583a5113d002ee17b8
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 Private remains distinct from the later or highest rank Sergeant Major. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Solace; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Solace, 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 (Boxer Rebellion); the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved. The controlled historical action place is Tientsin, China; the current structured place Tientsin, China and the complete inherited geocoder value Tianjin, Tianjin, China 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.