Medal of Honor
April 21–22, 1914
Vera Cruz, Mexico
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
- Unit or command
- Not documented
- Presentation date
- December 4, 1915
The Citation
Sources ↓Separately preserved current-source wording
Captured from the linked current recipient source; it is not a new comparison with an original General Order.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Walter Newell Hill — 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-002412
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 177
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Brigadier General
- Accredited to
- Massachusetts
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 89b3a43c3f2c1267f4317f9714cfe7ca7bcb2e77df8ff2020a986b0bc30473b1
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 current profile also supplies the separately retained rank rendering Captain (Highest Rank: Brigadier General); action and later or highest ranks remain separately attributed. 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 controlled action-date display is April 21–22, 1914; the current structured source value and any fuller citation chronology remain separately attributed. The controlled historical action place is Vera Cruz, Mexico; the current structured place Vera Cruz, Mexico and the complete inherited geocoder value Heroica Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico remain preserved in the audit evidence. The structured field gives April 21, 1914, while the rendered citation expressly covers both April 21 and 22; the controlled range records both days. The current profile publishes no structured unit, so no unit is inferred. 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.