Medal of Honor
July 21–August 17, 1900
Peking, China
- Rank at action
- Drummer
- 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
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- John Alphonsus Murphy — 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-002568
- Transcription status
- Conflicting official citation variants preserved
- Last source check
- 2026-08-31
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 55
- Accredited to
- Washington, D.C.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 66df8018c94b84a397d0e38a3da32af52727db474b19276507af56d28109fcbe
Official institutional sources disagree on a citation detail. The inherited canonical wording and the current Society wording are retained separately with supporting source records; no silent overwrite was performed.
The Society structured field ends on September 17, 1900, while the rendered citation ends on August 17. The citation-supported July 21–August 17 range is controlled and the structured September endpoint remains preserved as a conflicting current-source value. 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.