Medal of Honor
April 21, 1914
Vera Cruz, Mexico
- Rank at action
- Boatswain's Mate Second Class
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Florida
- Presentation date
- June 15, 1914
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Percy A. Decker — 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-002293
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 101
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Lieutenant
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- cfe604230784110f4b7507b7ae76247379d82fab5ce132ca8c1bb4d76ee85bcc
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 exact current profile heading is Percy A Decker; the controlled display name is Percy A. Decker, and both forms remain preserved. The action rank Boatswain's Mate Second Class remains distinct from the later or highest rank Lieutenant. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Florida; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Florida, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1914-04-21 and classifies the action under Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz); the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Vera Cruz, Mexico; the current structured place Vera Cruz, Mexico and the complete inherited geocoder value Heroica Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico 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.