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Medal of Honor Recipient

Edward Orrick McDonnell

U.S. Navy · Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)

MOH-RC-002511Source-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 HonorRecorded presentation: 1915

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Medal of Honor

April 21–22, 1914

Vera Cruz, Mexico

Rank at action
Ensign
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
Unit or command
Not documented in structured profile
Presentation date
December 4, 1915

The Citation

Sources ↓
For extraordinary heroism in battle, engagements of Vera Cruz, 21 and 22 April 1914. Posted on the roof of the Terminal Hotel and landing, Ens. McDonnell established a signal station there day and night, maintaining communication between troops and ships. At this exposed post he was continually under fire. One man was killed and 3 wounded at his side during the 2 days' fighting. He showed extraordinary heroism and striking courage and maintained his station in the highest degree of efficiency. All signals got through, largely due to his heroic devotion to duty.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Edward Orrick McDonnell — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002522
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
177
Later or highest recorded rank
Vice Admiral
Accredited to
Maryland
Archive transcription SHA-256
dcc888f63efb8156748edabea4a5a5c8c18cc2b8f2e78e2240e510bc61ef5451

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

Society structured details give April 21, 1914; the rendered citation identifies the engagements of April 21–22. The complete two-day citation chronology is controlled while the structured starting date remains separately attributed. Recovery provenance: the prior live-verification result is reconstructed because the described P10-C060–P10-C062 restart files were not physically available; the verified P10-C059 authority, retained web-reference metadata, legacy record, and prior session evidence are all preserved.

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