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Medal of Honor Recipient

David Ephraim Hayden

U.S. Navy · World War I

MOH-RC-001983Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: Navy star design with the 1913 blue ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1918

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Medal of Honor

September 15, 1918

Thiaucourt, France

Rank at action
Hospital Apprentice First Class
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
2d Battalion, 6th Regiment, U.S. Marines

The Citation

Sources ↓
For gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. During the advance, when Cpl. Creed was mortally wounded while crossing an open field swept by machinegun fire, Hayden unhesitatingly ran to his assistance and, finding him so severely wounded as to require immediate attention, disregarded his own personal safety to dress the wound under intense machinegun fire, and then carried the wounded man back to a place of safety.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. David Ephraim Hayden — 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-001993
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Later or highest recorded rank
Pharmacist's Mate Third Class
Entered service at
Texas
Archive transcription SHA-256
6df16e66c9260e75195ae3d8d1735962fd1b286fba20b3923b4dd11f953f0730

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

The current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from David E. Hayden to David Ephraim Hayden; both renderings remain preserved. The profile's structured and explanatory rank renderings are retained separately: Pharmacist's Mate Third Class (rank at time of action: Hospital Apprentice First Class) The current profile records later or highest rank Pharmacist's Mate Third Class; it is stored separately from rank at time of action. The current source records 2d Battalion, 6th Regiment, U.S. Marines; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. 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 Not yet classified value remains preserved in the audit record.

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