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Medal of Honor Recipient

Parker Francis Dunn

U.S. Army · World War I

MOH-RC-001941Source-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: 1922

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Medal of Honor

October 23, 1918

near Grand-Pre

Rank at action
Private First Class
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
Company A, 312th Infantry, 78th Division
Presentation date
December 31, 1922

The Citation

Sources ↓
When his battalion commander found it necessary to send a message to a company in the attacking line and hesitated to order a runner to make the trip because of the extreme danger involved, Pfc. Dunn, a member of the intelligence section, volunteered for the mission. After advancing but a short distance across a field swept by artillery and machinegun fire, he was wounded, but continued on and fell wounded a second time. Still undaunted, he persistently attempted to carry out his mission until he was killed by a machinegun bullet before reaching the advance line.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Parker Francis Dunn — 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-001950
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
49
Entered service at
Albany, N.Y.
Archive transcription SHA-256
4cd206c68ce4b7353b99536281393489d8b31aa859001c3afe735c0f5e5e739e

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

The current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Parker F. Dunn to Parker Francis Dunn; both renderings remain preserved. The current profile supplies rank at time of action as Private First Class; 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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