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Medal of Honor Recipient

Robert Edward Cox

U.S. Navy · Interim 1899 - 1910

MOH-RC-002268Source-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: 1921

Portrait not yet available. Representative medal shown.

About this image

Representative form selected from the recorded presentation year (1921), not authenticated medal-object provenance. The Navy used more than one design in this period. No Tiffany Cross attribution is inferred from service or conflict alone.

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Medal of Honor

April 13, 1904

off Pensacola, Florida, USA

Rank at action
Chief Gunner
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1899 - 1910
Unit or command
U.S.S. Missouri
Presentation date
April 14, 1921

The Citation

Sources ↓
For extraordinary heroism on U.S.S. Missouri 13 April, 1904. While at target practice off Pensacola, Fla., an accident occurred in the after turret of the Missouri whereby the lives of 5 officers and 28 men were lost. The ship was in imminent danger of destruction by explosion, and the prompt action of C.G. Cox and 2 gunners' mates caused the fire to be brought under control, and the loss of the Missouri, together with her crew, was averted.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Robert Edward Cox — 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-002279
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
43
Accredited to
West Virginia
Archive transcription SHA-256
32d2b756d4916f9e4df9590a691964ed01ceabad5e1e9a00cf9c4602db960d29

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 controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Missouri; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Missouri, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1904-04-13 and classifies the action under Interim 1899 - 1910; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is off Pensacola, Florida, USA; the current structured place U.S.S. Missouri at Sea, Caribbean Sea and the complete inherited geocoder value Pensacola, FL, USA remain preserved in the audit evidence. The structured current place and the more specific citation action context are retained in parallel rather than silently selecting one source rendering. 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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