Medal of Honor
April 21, 1914–April 22, 1914
Vera Cruz, Mexico
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
- Unit or command
- 17th Company, 2d Advanced Base Regiment
- Presentation date
- December 4, 1915
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Eli Thompson Fryer — 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-002351
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 177
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brigadier General
- Accredited to
- New Jersey
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 1e36a0ee1ed99d26f5cd49dbbd80b5484191ddbb933899bbf6b766d879bd57e0
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 Captain remains distinct from the later or highest rank Brigadier General. The controlled canonical unit or command is 17th Company, 2d Advanced Base Regiment; the current structured profile renders 17th Company, 2d Advanced Base Regiment, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1914-04-21 through 1914-04-22 and classifies the action under Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz); the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Vera Cruz, Mexico; the current structured place Vera Cruz, Mexico and the complete inherited geocoder value Heroica Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico remain preserved in the audit evidence. The Society structured action date is 1914-04-21; additional or conflicting date context in the rendered citation is preserved separately. 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.