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Medal of Honor Recipient

Samuel Major Sampler

U.S. Army · World War I

MOH-RC-001949Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1904 Army design, early suspension ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1919

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Medal of Honor

October 8, 1918

near St. Etienne, France

Rank at action
Corporal
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
Company H, 142d Infantry, 36th Division
Presentation date
December 31, 1919

The Citation

Sources ↓
His company having suffered severe casualties during an advance under machinegun fire, was finally stopped. Cpl. Sampler detected the position of the enemy machineguns on an elevation. Armed with German handgrenades, which he had picked up, he left the line and rushed forward in the face of heavy fire until he was near the hostile nest, where he grenaded the position. His third grenade landed among the enemy, killing 2, silencing the machineguns, and causing the surrender of 28 Germans, whom he sent to the rear as prisoners. As a result of his act the company was immediately enabled to resume the advance.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Samuel Major Sampler — 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-001959
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
59
Entered service at
Altus, Okla.
Archive transcription SHA-256
4495509a5046d4ce68bc8386d7490f4088c16ee1d4d87a0f4a544ab7d2a65e5a

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

The current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Samuel M. Sampler to Samuel Major Sampler; both renderings remain preserved. The current profile supplies rank at time of action as Corporal; the inherited rank field remains preserved as None. The current historical action-place wording replaces only the controlled canonical geocoder field; the complete inherited place remains preserved. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under World War I; the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record.

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