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Medal of Honor Recipient

Randolph Carter Berkeley

U.S. Marine Corps · Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)

MOH-RC-002189Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: Navy star design with the 1913 blue ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1915

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Medal of Honor

April 21, 1914

Vera Cruz, Mexico

Rank at action
Major
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Conflict
Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
Unit or command
1st Battalion, 2d Advanced Base Regiment
Presentation date
December 4, 1915

The Citation

Sources ↓
For distinguished conduct in battle, engagements of Vera Cruz, 21 and 22 April 1914. Maj. Berkeley was eminent and conspicuous in command of his battalion; was in the fighting of both days, and exhibited courage and skill in leading his men through action. His cool judgment and courage, and his skill in handling his men in encountering and overcoming the machinegun and rifle fire down Cinco de Mayo and parallel streets account for the small percentage of the losses of marines under his command.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Randolph Carter Berkeley — 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-002199
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
177
Later or highest recorded rank
Major General
Accredited to
Washington, D.C.
Archive transcription SHA-256
0a9d7cd99362976517a3092a7d930665ecf87fc50ce54b4e3d95b12ea34dd9da

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, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The controlled action rank is Major; the current profile also records a later or highest rank of Major General. Action and later ranks remain separately attributed. The current profile records 1st Battalion, 2d Advanced Base Regiment; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1914-04-21 from the current authoritative profile. The controlled historical action place is Vera Cruz, Mexico; the complete inherited geocoder value Vera Cruz - SP, Brazil remains preserved in the audit evidence. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz); the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.

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