Medal of Honor
June 20, 1900
Tientsin, China
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion)
- Unit or command
- Captain Newt H. Hall's Marine Detachment, USS Newark
- Presentation date
- March 22, 1902
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Edwin Nelson Appleton — 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-002176
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 84
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Captain, U.S. Army
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 6b61da1775d3344b4636489c512bfddbd804936775750f569bad67206cf724d1
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, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The controlled action rank is Corporal; the current profile also records a later or highest rank of Captain, U.S. Army. Action and later ranks remain separately attributed. The current profile records Captain Newt H. Hall's Marine Detachment, USS Newark; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1900-06-20 from the current authoritative profile. The controlled historical action place is Tientsin, China; the complete inherited geocoder value Tianjin, Tianjin, China remains preserved in the audit evidence. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion); the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.