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Medal of Honor Recipient

Gotfred Jensen

U.S. Army · Philippine Insurrection

MOH-RC-000495Source-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
Private
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Philippine Insurrection
Unit or command
Company D, 1st North Dakota Volunteer Infantry
Presentation date
June 6, 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. Gotfred Jensen — 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-000501
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Entered service at
Devils Lake, N. Dak.
Archive transcription SHA-256
30d9477b00e1bcaf7dffcf81bc590c183e206fc3984c56ba8d376b76f2443d50

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

The current profile replaces the modern Bulacan geocoder result with the source-rendered San Miguel de Mayumo, Luzon action place.