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Medal of Honor Recipient

John Olof Dahlgren

U.S. Marine Corps · China Relief Expedition

MOH-RC-002277Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1900

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Medal of Honor

June 20, 1900–July 16, 1900

Peking, China

Rank at action
Corporal
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Conflict
China Relief Expedition
Unit or command
Not documented

The Citation

Sources ↓
In the presence of the enemy during the battle of Peking, China, 20 June to 16 July 1900, Dahlgren distinguished himself by meritorious conduct.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. John Olof Dahlgren — 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-002288
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
55
Other source date wording
1900-07-16
Accredited to
California
Archive transcription SHA-256
a63e08a309218b2279dc74d315880462c5cfe3cced3054f21c46cf630e4a9558

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 Not documented; the current structured profile renders Not documented, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1900-06-20 through 1900-07-16 and classifies the action under China Relief Expedition; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Peking, China; the current structured place Peking, China and the complete inherited geocoder value Beijing, Beijing, China remain preserved in the audit evidence. The Society structured action date is 1900-07-16; additional or conflicting date context in the rendered citation is preserved separately. 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.