Medal of Honor
October 12, 1918
Vaux-Andigny, France
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- World War I
- Unit or command
- Company I, 118th Infantry, 30th Division
- Presentation date
- December 31, 1919
The Citation
Sources ↓Cpl. Heriot, with 4 other soldiers, organized a combat group and attacked an enemy machine-gun nest which had been inflicting heavy casualties on his company. In the advance 2 of his men were killed, and because of the heavy fire from all sides the remaining 2 sought shelter. Unmindful of the hazard attached to his mission, Cpl. Heriot, with fixed bayonet, alone charged the machinegun, making his way through the fire for a distance of 30 yards and forcing the enemy to surrender. During this exploit he received several wounds in the arm, and later in the same day, while charging another nest, he was killed.
Sources & record notes
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- James Davidson Heriot — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000314
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 13
- Entered service at
- Providence, S.C.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- be05eb90d29a538503910698e2459d555f006a4cb114a3cbf37108cd763ec3a4
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The structured profile renders “30th Divsion”; the canonical unit normalizes the evident typographical error while preserving the source rendering in evidence.