Medal of Honor
March 7, 1906
Bud-Dajo, Jolo, Philippine Islands
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- Philippine Insurrection
- Unit or command
- 19th U.S. Infantry
The Citation
Sources ↓While at the head of the column about to assault the first cotta under a superior fire at short range personally carried to a sheltered position a wounded man and the body of one who was killed beside him.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Joseph Samuel Cecil — 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-000477
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Colonel
- Entered service at
- New River, Tenn.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- f247a1f4d4bc20d8538d12bc729240f37d48be3d984508345bf01b3f69f00b50
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current profile expands the middle name, records the historical alias Josephus S. Cecil, retains First Lieutenant as the action rank and Colonel as the highest/later rank, and supplies the Bud-Dajo action place. The canonical profile was resolved through archival reference search outside the inherited candidate set.