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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Morris

U.S. Marine Corps · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002548Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1881

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Medal of Honor

December 25, 1881

Villefranche, France

Rank at action
Corporal
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Lancaster

The Citation

Sources ↓
For leaping overboard from the U.S. Flagship Lancaster, at Villefranche, France, 25 December 1881, and rescuing from drowning Robert Blizzard, ordinary seaman, a prisoner, who had jumped overboard.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Morris — 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-002559
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
326
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
cd4b179cdd197e8ebc161e70265854ea76cc83a56eaf92e5c4a1bb49ad4bc56a

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

Current reference profile confirms Marine Corps service aboard USS Lancaster and the December 25, 1881 lifesaving action at Villefranche. 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.

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