Medal of Honor
October 15, 1918
Vaux-Andigny, France
- Rank at action
- Corporal
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- World War I
- Unit or command
- Company M, 118th Infantry, 30th Division
- Presentation date
- December 31, 1919
The Citation
Sources ↓Having been sent out with 2 other soldiers to scout through the village of Vaux-Andigny, he met with strong resistance from enemy machinegun fire, which killed 1 of his men and wounded the other. Continuing his advance without aid 500 yards in advance of his platoon and in the face of machinegun and artillery fire he encountered 4 of the enemy in a dugout, whom he attacked and killed with a handgrenade. Crawling forward to a point 150 yards in advance of his first encounter, he rushed a machinegun nest, killing 4 and capturing 6 of the enemy and taking 2 light machineguns. After being joined by his platoon he was severely wounded in the arm.
Sources & record notes
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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000350
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 16
- Entered service at
- Camden, S.C.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 36dd456519c87ea5cadd6533e4d9082f980aa859a9e1ec5db8b51e024c4c8e6c
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current reference profile confirms identity and core action metadata; legacy full citation text and source-row provenance are retained; General Order comparison remains pending.