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Medal of Honor Recipient

Frank Lafayette Anders

U.S. Army · Philippine Insurrection

MOH-RC-000456Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1904 Army design, early suspension ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1906

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Medal of Honor

May 13, 1899

San Miguel de Mayumo, Luzon, Philippine Islands

Rank at action
Corporal
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Philippine Insurrection
Unit or command
Company B, 1st North Dakota Volunteer Infantry
Presentation date
March 3, 1906

The Citation

Sources ↓
With 11 other scouts, without waiting for the supporting battalion to aid them or to get into a position to do so, charged over a distance of about 150 yards and completely routed about 300 of the enemy who were in line and in a position that could only be carried by a frontal attack.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Frank Lafayette Anders — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000462
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Later or highest recorded rank
Major
Entered service at
Fargo, N. Dak.
Archive transcription SHA-256
9caf251d3ff494a327c89dc752a6432f70c13b97ba59e767b64b5e61dfb82946

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

Corporal is retained as the action rank and Major as the highest/later rank. The current profile expands the middle name and replaces the modern locality result with the historical San Miguel de Mayumo wording.