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Medal of Honor Recipient

George William Rud

U.S. Navy · Interim 1915 - 1916

MOH-RC-002995Source-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: 1932

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Representative form selected from the recorded presentation year (1932), 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

1916-08-29

off Santo Domingo City, Santo Domingo

Rank at action
Chief Machinist's Mate
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1915 - 1916
Unit or command
U.S.S. Memphis
Presentation date
August 1, 1932

The Citation

Sources ↓
For extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession while attached to the U.S.S. Memphis, at a time when that vessel was suffered total destruction from a hurricane while anchored off Santo Domingo City, 29 August 1916. C.M.M. Rud took his station in the engineroom and remained at his post amidst scalding steam and the rushing of thousands of tons of water into his department, receiving serious burns from which he immediately died.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. George William Rud — Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-09-01

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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-003010
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-09-01
Accredited to
Minnesota
Archive transcription SHA-256
e6bb7c478b9c3cc1b97aa58af20cec8c06c600d7f37d442827d9b327bb153c24

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

The current official profile expands the middle name; the legacy initialed form remains an alias.

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