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Medal of Honor Recipient

Robert Semple

U.S. Navy · Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)

MOH-RC-002657Source-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: 1924

Portrait not yet available. Representative medal shown.

About this image

Representative form selected from the recorded presentation year (1924), 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 21, 1914

Vera Cruz, Mexico

Rank at action
Chief Gunner
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
Unit or command
U.S.S. Florida
Presentation date
January 10, 1924

The Citation

Sources ↓
For meritorious service under fire on the occasion of the landing of the American naval forces at Vera Cruz on 21 April 1914. C.G. Semple was then attached to the U.S.S. Florida as a chief turret captain.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Robert Semple — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002669
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
120
Later or highest recorded rank
Lieutenant Commander
Accredited to
Pennsylvania
Archive transcription SHA-256
d1435bd3c10d9242683fcc53b8685883aebde986e8309abe997c4af29a58c471

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

Current reference profile confirms Chief Gunner as the action rank, Lieutenant Commander as the later or highest rank, USS Florida, and the April 21, 1914 landing at Vera Cruz. Recovery provenance: the prior live-verification result is reconstructed because the described P10-C060–P10-C062 restart files were not physically available; the verified P10-C059 authority, retained web-reference metadata, legacy record, and prior session evidence are all preserved.

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