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Medal of Honor Recipient

Guy Wilkinson Stuart Castle

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

MOH-RC-002236Source-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
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
Unit or command
Not documented
Presentation date
December 4, 1915

The Citation

Sources ↓
For distinguished conduct in battle, engagements of Vera Cruz, 21 and 22 April 1914. Eminent and conspicuous in command of his battalion, Lt. Castle was in the fighting of both days, and exhibited courage and skill in leading his men through action. In seizing the customhouse, he encountered for many hours the heaviest and most pernicious concealed fire of the entire day, but his courage and coolness under trying conditions were marked.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Guy Wilkinson Stuart Castle — 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-002246
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
177
Later or highest recorded rank
Commander
Accredited to
Wisconsin
Archive transcription SHA-256
d4c294737668d0b56f9a05bc32ae8ae36b088f5f1204c7f1d1eedb7ef52a429e

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

The inherited rank-4 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 action rank Lieutenant remains distinct from the later or highest rank Commander. 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 complete inherited geocoder value Heroica Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico remains preserved in the audit evidence. The Society structured action date is 1914-04-21; additional or conflicting date context in the rendered citation and supplemental official evidence 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.