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Medal of Honor Recipient

Harold W Roberts

U.S. Army · World War I

MOH-RC-002628Source-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: 1919

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Medal of Honor

October 4, 1918

Montrebeau Woods, France

Rank at action
Corporal
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
Company A, 344th Battalion, Tank Corps
Presentation date
December 31, 1919

The Citation

Sources ↓
Cpl. Roberts, a tank driver, was moving his tank into a clump of bushes to afford protection to another tank which had become disabled. The tank slid into a shell hole, 10 feet deep, filled with water, and was immediately submerged. Knowing that only 1 of the 2 men in the tank could escape, Cpl. Roberts said to the gunner, "Well, only one of us can get out, and out you go," whereupon he pushed his companion through the back door of the tank and was himself drowned.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Harold W Roberts — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002640
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
16
Entered service at
San Francisco, Calif.
Archive transcription SHA-256
3e7b9bff7ba502681644b3cf61d4304a0ad869f4b60fe1bd0d97c10501bbc6a2

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

Current reference profile confirms identity, Company A, 344th Battalion, Tank Corps, and the October 4, 1918 Montrebeau Woods action. Recovery provenance: the prior live-verification result is reconstructed because the described P10-C060–P10-C062 restart files were not physically available; the verified P10-C059 authority, retained web-reference metadata, legacy record, and prior session evidence are all preserved.

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