Medal of Honor
Not documented
Not documented
- Rank at action
- Not documented
- Service
- Unknown
- Conflict
- World War I
- Unit or command
- Not documented
The Citation
Sources ↓* * * By virtue of the authority vested by law in the President of the United States, the Congressional Medal of Honor, emblem of the highest military ideals and virtues, is bestowed in the name of the Congress of the United States upon the unknown, unidentified Belgian soldier in a desire to add all that is possible to the imperishable glory won by the soldiers of Belgium who fought as comrades of the American soldiers during the World War, and to commemorate with them the deeds of the nations associated with the United States of America, by paying this tribute to their unknown dead (A.G. 220.523) (War Department General Orders, No. 52, I Dec. 1922, Sec. 1).
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Unknown Soldier of Belgium — 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-003425
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-09-02
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- a4c5f42aecc1a9408b1af5746aaffeb245871f8946d2772e8784e194c48ba0dc
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile comparison is documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current official reference profile identifies the Unknown Soldier of Belgium and documents no structured rank, unit, action date, or action place. Those fields remain not documented rather than inferred. The current URL is outside the inherited candidate set.