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Medal of Honor Recipient

Robert Galbraith

U.S. Navy · Philippine Insurrection

MOH-RC-002342Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1899

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Medal of Honor

September 12, 1899–September 13, 1899

El Pardo, Cebu, Philippine Islands

Rank at action
Gunner's Mate Third Class
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Philippine Insurrection
Unit or command
Not documented

The Citation

Sources ↓
For extraordinary heroism and gallantry while under fire of the enemy at El Pardo, Cebu, Philippine Islands, 12 and 13 September 1899.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Robert Galbraith — 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-002353
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
531
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
ece3b074563fc277701d7555733bef873639d662d55caa840d853bb21695be21

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 Not documented; the current structured profile renders Not documented, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1899-09-12 through 1899-09-13 and classifies the action under Philippine Insurrection; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is El Pardo, Cebu, Philippine Islands; the current structured place El Pardo, Cebu, Philippine Islands and the complete inherited geocoder value Unknown remain preserved in the audit evidence. The Society structured action date is 1899-09-12; additional or conflicting date context in the rendered citation is preserved separately. 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.