Medal of Honor
July 21, 1900–August 17, 1900
Peking, China
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- China Relief Expedition
- Unit or command
- Capt. Newt H. Hall's Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Newark
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Louis Rene Gaiennie — 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-002352
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 55
- Entered service at
- St. Louis, Mo.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- b3023b431806922152354b106f64230b1ec9ac3ab98662f381a7305748dd9f97
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 Capt. Newt H. Hall's Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Newark; the current structured profile renders Capt. Newt H. Hall's Marine Detachment, U.S.S. Newark, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1900-07-21 through 1900-08-17 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 1900-07-21; 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.