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Medal of Honor Recipient

Louis Wardlaw Miles

U.S. Army · World War I

MOH-RC-001946Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1904 Army design, early suspension ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1919

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Medal of Honor

September 14, 1918

near Revillon, France

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
308th Infantry, 77th Division
Presentation date
December 31, 1919

The Citation

Sources ↓
Volunteered to lead his company in a hazardous attack on a commanding trench position near the Aisne Canal, which other troops had previously attempted to take without success. His company immediately met with intense machinegun fire, against which it had no artillery assistance, but Capt. Miles preceded the first wave and assisted in cutting a passage through the enemy's wire entanglements. In so doing he was wounded 5 times by machinegun bullets, both legs and 1 arm being fractured, whereupon he ordered himself placed on a stretcher and had himself carried forward to the enemy trench in order that he might encourage and direct his company, which by this time had suffered numerous casualties. Under the inspiration of this officer's indomitable spirit his men held the hostile position and consolidated the front line after an action lasting 2 hours, at the conclusion of which Capt. Miles was carried to the aid station against his will.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Louis Wardlaw Miles — 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-001956
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
44
Entered service at
Princeton, N.J.
Archive transcription SHA-256
d6d8d56c29df0110065b3535e200aa7e648dd4bf37dae866b87d83d02222cb77

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

The canonical current reference profile was resolved through a controlled archival reference search outside the inherited candidate set. Every inherited candidate remains preserved in the audit trail; candidate rank and URL availability were not treated as verification. The current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from L. Wardlaw Miles to Louis Wardlaw Miles; both renderings remain preserved. The current profile supplies rank at time of action as Captain; the inherited rank field remains preserved as None. The current historical action-place wording replaces only the controlled canonical geocoder field; the complete inherited place remains preserved. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under World War I; the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record.

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