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Medal of Honor Recipient

Joseph A Nolan

U.S. Army · Philippine Insurrection

MOH-RC-000518Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1896 Army ribbon pattern. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1902

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Medal of Honor

May 29, 1900

Labo, Luzon, Philippine Islands

Rank at action
Artificer
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Philippine Insurrection
Unit or command
Company B, 45th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers
Presentation date
March 14, 1902

The Citation

Sources ↓
Voluntarily left shelter and at great personal risk passed the enemy's lines and brought relief to besieged comrades.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Joseph A Nolan — 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-000524
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Entered service at
South Bend, Ind.
Archive transcription SHA-256
3c6a489b95e00642fb4c96e367cd3845fe3a19c52dc2caa9cc1054c801e7d866

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

The current official profile confirms identity and action date and records canonical name Joseph A Nolan; unit Company B, 45th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers; conflict Philippine Insurrection; historical action place Labo, Luzon, Philippine Islands.