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Medal of Honor Recipient

Tedford Harris Cann

U.S. Navy · World War I

MOH-RC-003354Source-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: 1918

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Representative form selected from the recorded presentation year (1918), 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

November 5, 1917

between Bermuda and the Azores, Atlantic Ocean

Rank at action
Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
U.S.S. May
Presentation date
December 31, 1918

The Citation

Sources ↓
For courageous conduct while serving on board the U.S.S. May, 5 November 1917. Cann found a leak in a flooded compartment and closed it at the peril of his life, thereby unquestionably saving the ship.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Tedford Harris Cann — Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-09-02

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-003369
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-09-02
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
366
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
65c622cc03c33fc273648932694ed2555a62705cda15ee0e53ba2862b69c4b93

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

Current official reference profile confirms identity and core action metadata; exact legacy citation text and checksum are retained; General Order comparison remains pending.

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