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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Hugh Catherwood

U.S. Navy · Action Against Outlaws, Philippines 1911

MOH-RC-002237Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1911

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Medal of Honor

September 24, 1911

near the village of Mundang, Basilan Island, Philippine Islands

Rank at action
Ordinary Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Action Against Outlaws, Philippines 1911
Unit or command
U.S.S. Pampanga
Presentation date
December 13, 1911

The Citation

Sources ↓
While attached to the U.S.S. Pampang, Catherwood was one of a shore party moving in to capture Mundang, on the island of Basilan, Philippine Islands, on the morning of 24 September 1911. Advancing with the scout party to reconnoiter a group of nipa huts close to the trail, Catherwood unhesitatingly entered the open area before the huts, where his party was suddenly taken under point-blank fire and charged by approximately 20 enemy Moros coming out from inside the native huts and from other concealed positions. Struck down almost instantly by the outlaws' deadly fire, Catherwood, although unable to rise, rallied to the defense of his leader and fought desperately to beat off the hostile attack. By his valiant effort under fire and in the face of great odds, Catherwood contributed materially toward the destruction and rout of the enemy.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Hugh Catherwood — 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-002247
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
138
Accredited to
Illinois
Archive transcription SHA-256
9d86378dfcc86d8360bacd16619e4c7fc3a0bbeda46be12b4da45eaded72bc5f

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

The inherited rank-1 Society candidate was confirmed by substantive comparison of identity, service, rank, unit or command, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Pampanga; the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1911-09-24 and classifies the action under Action Against Outlaws, Philippines 1911; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is near the village of Mundang, Basilan Island, Philippine Islands; the complete inherited geocoder value Basilan, Philippines remains preserved in the audit evidence. The structured unit identifies U.S.S. Pampanga while the rendered citation spells the vessel U.S.S. Pampang; both exact official renderings are retained. The inherited full citation remains canonical and checksum-protected; current rendered wording is preserved separately where transcribed. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.

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