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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Robb Church

U.S. Army · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-002157Source-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: 1906

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Medal of Honor

June 24, 1898

Las Guasimas, Cuba

Rank at action
Assistant Surgeon
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry
Presentation date
January 10, 1906

The Citation

Sources ↓
In addition to performing gallantly the duties pertaining to his position, voluntarily and unaided carried several seriously wounded men from the firing line to a secure position in the rear, m each instance being subjected to a very heavy fire and great exposure and danger.
Separately preserved current-source wording

Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.

In addition to performing gallantly the duties pertaining to his position, voluntarily and unaided carried several seriously wounded men from the firing line to a secure position in the rear, in each instance being subjected to a very heavy fire and great exposure and danger.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James Robb Church — 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-002167
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Later or highest recorded rank
Colonel
Entered service at
Washington, D.C.
Archive transcription SHA-256
ac9abf00ec7022137c75ad52a6389300f26d014efd7866ec9c71782411beefc7

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

The controlled action rank is Assistant Surgeon. The inherited rank is Assistant Surgeon; the current profile also records Assistant Surgeon (highest rank: Colonel). Action, presentation, role, and later/highest ranks remain separately attributed. The inherited citation contains a typographical corruption in “in each instance.” The inherited text remains preserved, and the clean current Society rendering is stored separately without replacement. The current historical action-place wording replaces only the controlled canonical geocoder field; the complete inherited place remains preserved. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Spanish-American War; the inherited Not yet classified value remains preserved in the audit record.

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