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Medal of Honor Recipient

Nelson Miles Holderman

U.S. Army · World War I

MOH-RC-002405Source-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: 1921

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Medal of Honor

October 2–8, 1918

northeast of Binarville, Argonne Forest, France

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
307th Infantry, 77th Division
Presentation date
December 31, 1921

The Citation

Sources ↓
Capt. Holderman commanded a company of a battalion which was cut off and surrounded by the enemy. He was wounded on 4, 5, and 7 October, but throughout the entire period, suffering great pain and subjected to fire of every character, he continued personally to lead and encourage the officers and men under his command with unflinching courage and with distinguished success. On 6 October, in a wounded condition, he rushed through enemy machinegun and shell fire and carried 2 wounded men to a place of safety.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Nelson Miles Holderman — 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-002416
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
11
Later or highest recorded rank
Colonel
Entered service at
Santa Ana, Calif.
Archive transcription SHA-256
5d2e3eb5a3dcbb8f003cc2b918c375378fcb735ee3e6fb520b84355b27b06c20

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 current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Nelson M. Holderman to Nelson Miles Holderman; both renderings remain preserved. The current profile also supplies the separately retained rank rendering Captain (Highest Rank: Colonel); action and later or highest ranks remain separately attributed. The controlled canonical unit or command is 307th Infantry, 77th Division; the current structured profile renders 307th Infantry, 77th Division, and the inherited wording 307th Infantry, 77th Division remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The controlled action-date display is October 2–8, 1918; the current structured source value and any fuller citation chronology remain separately attributed. The controlled historical action place is northeast of Binarville, Argonne Forest, France; the current structured place northeast of Binarville, Argonne Forest, France and the complete inherited geocoder value Argonnestraat, 1060 Sint-Gillis, Belgium remain preserved in the audit evidence. 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.

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