Medal of Honor
1918-10-08
near Montbrehain, France
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- World War I
- Unit or command
- Company G, 118th Infantry, 30th Division
- Presentation date
- December 31, 1919
The Citation
Sources ↓In command of two platoons, 1st Lt. Dozier was painfully wounded in the shoulder early in the attack, but he continued to lead his men, displaying the highest bravery and skill. When his command was held up by heavy machine-gun fire, he disposed his men in the best cover available and with a soldier continued forward to attack a machine-gun nest. Creeping up to the position in the face of intense fire, he killed the entire crew with hand grenades and his pistol and a little later captured a number of Germans who had taken refuge in a dugout nearby.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- James C. Dozier — current citation source ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-22
current identity, action metadata, and full citation transcription
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000062
- Transcription status
- Current-source full text
- Last source check
- 2026-08-22
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 16
- Entered service at
- Rock Hill, S.C.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- c970ce0716a52b6677a0744a550a9b66d0344343754e8ecf42beacb001d0dbea
current_profile_transcription_with_whitespace_and_display_punctuation_normalized
Standardized the action place to near Montbrehain and retranscribed the current citation.