Medal of Honor
July 4, 1909
Patian Island, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- Second Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- 6th U.S. Cavalry
The Citation
Sources ↓While in action against hostile Moros, he entered with a few enlisted men the mouth of a cave occupied by a desperate enemy, this act having been ordered after he had volunteered several times. In this action 2d Lt. Kennedy was severely wounded.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- John Thomas Kennedy — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000503
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brigadier General
- Entered service at
- Orangeburg, S.C.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 929b5636912f366f852cec974a8a09af3cbdb421890611a51bc9803fd88fcc24
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current profile expands the middle name, preserves Second Lieutenant as the action rank and Brigadier General as the highest/later rank, and replaces the inherited country-level location with Patian Island.