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Medal of Honor Recipient

George McCall Courts

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

MOH-RC-002267Source-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, 1914–April 22, 1914

Vera Cruz, Mexico

Rank at action
Lieutenant, junior grade
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
Unit or command
U.S.S. Chester
Presentation date
December 4, 1915

The Citation

Sources ↓
For distinguished conduct in battle, engagements of Vera Cruz, 21 and 22 April 1914. Under fire, Lt.(j.g.) Courts was eminent and conspicuous in the performance of his duties. He had well qualified himself by thorough study during his years of duty in Mexico to deal with the conditions of this engagement, and his services were of great value. He twice volunteered and passed in an open boat through the zone of fire to convey important orders to the Chester, then under a severe fire.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. George McCall Courts — 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-002278
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
177
Other source unit wording
Not documented
Later or highest recorded rank
Commander
Accredited to
District of Columbia
Archive transcription SHA-256
c0ccaabb33115866b67fb05a55af6705ecad01eb4e8e1b6799b1c2ee695e4711

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 current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from George Mccall Courts to George McCall Courts; both renderings remain preserved. The action rank Lieutenant, junior grade remains distinct from the later or highest rank Commander. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Chester; the current structured profile renders Not documented, 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.

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