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Medal of Honor Recipient

Ernest Collier Williams

U.S. Marine Corps · Dominican Campaign

MOH-RC-002757Source-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: 1917

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Representative form selected from the recorded presentation year (1917), not authenticated medal-object provenance. The Navy used more than one design in this period. No Tiffany Cross attribution is inferred from service or conflict alone.

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Medal of Honor

November 29, 1916

San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic

Rank at action
First Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Conflict
Dominican Campaign
Unit or command
Not documented
Presentation date
April 28, 1917

The Citation

Sources ↓
In action against hostile forces at San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic, 29 November 1916. With only a dozen men available, 1st Lt. Williams rushed the gate of the fortress. With 8 of his party wounded by rifle fire of the defenders, he pressed on with the 4 remaining men, threw himself against the door just as it was being closed by the Dominicans and forced an entry. Despite a narrow escape from death at the hands of a rifleman, he and his men disposed of the guards and within a few minutes had gained control of the fort and the hundred prisoners confined there.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Ernest Collier Williams — 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-002770
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
289
Later or highest recorded rank
Lieutenant Colonel
Accredited to
Illinois
Archive transcription SHA-256
7541bb15e883da1cae20f5899da51859a2fab262ad402f32518e06b79feea977

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

The current reference profile identifies Ernest Collier Williams, while the inherited record used Ernest Calvin Williams. Collier is controlled from the current official profile; Calvin remains preserved as a legacy name variant. First Lieutenant and later Lieutenant Colonel remain distinct.

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