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Medal of Honor Recipient

Henry William Heisch

U.S. Marine Corps · China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion)

MOH-RC-002394Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: early Navy star design and striped ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1902

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Medal of Honor

June 20, 1900

Tientsin, China

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Conflict
China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion)
Unit or command
Capt. Newt H. Hall's Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Newark
Presentation date
March 22, 1902

The Citation

Sources ↓
In action against the enemy at Tientsin, China, 20 June 1900. Crossing the river in a small boat while under heavy fire, Heisch assisted in destroying buildings occupied by the enemy.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Henry William Heisch — 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-002405
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
84
Accredited to
California
Archive transcription SHA-256
4c73943400b2e12403d8c2f83160bd428bf019744e1f50eb480f075d6bc88e5a

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 controlled canonical unit or command is Capt. Newt H. Hall's Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Newark; the current structured profile renders Capt. Newt H. Hall's Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Newark, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1900-06-20 and classifies the action under China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion); the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Tientsin, China; the current structured place Tientsin, China and the complete inherited geocoder value Tianjin, Tianjin, China remain preserved in the audit evidence. 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.