Medal of Honor
July 13, 1900
Tientsin, China
- Rank at action
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion)
- Unit or command
- 9th U.S. Infantry
- Presentation date
- March 11, 1902
The Citation
Sources ↓Carried a message and guided reinforcements across a wide and fireswept space, during which he was thrice wounded.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Louis Bowem Lawton — 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-000505
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Major
- Entered service at
- Auburn, N.Y.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 954f1f17e838630753e7e00bc63c8de19f4f218671bc3f251910f8af5f887804
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current profile expands the source-rendered middle name to Bowem, classifies the award under the China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion), preserves First Lieutenant as the action rank and Major as the highest/later rank, and uses the historical Tientsin spelling.