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Medal of Honor Recipient

Herbert Irving Preston

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

MOH-RC-002608Source-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 HonorAction-era reference: 1900

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Medal of Honor

July 21–August 17, 1900

Peking, China

Rank at action
Private
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Conflict
China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion)
Unit or command
Not documented in structured profile

The Citation

Sources ↓
In the presence of the enemy during the action at Peking, China, 21 July to 17 August 1900. Throughout this period, Preston distinguished himself by meritorious conduct.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Herbert Irving Preston — 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-002620
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
55
Accredited to
New Jersey
Archive transcription SHA-256
54269af4e016ec468e1ce8a8e6b44ac7d19397586b59d611c48e70f4c88cec37

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

Current reference profile expands the inherited name and confirms Marine Corps service and the July 21–August 17, 1900 Peking action period. 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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