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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Adolphus Crouse

U.S. Navy · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-002275Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1898

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Medal of Honor

May 21, 1898

off Cavite, Manila Bay, Luzon, Philippines

Rank at action
Watertender
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Concord

The Citation

Sources ↓
On board the U.S.S. Concord off Cavite, Manila Bay, P.I., 21 May 1898. Following the blowing out of a lower manhole plate joint on boiler B of that vessel, Crouse hauled the fires in the hot, vapor-filled atmosphere which necessitated the playing of water into the fireroom from a hose.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William Adolphus Crouse — 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-002286
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
502
Later or highest recorded rank
Chief Commissary Steward
Accredited to
Pennsylvania
Archive transcription SHA-256
73d7afe905a32f98dbe42f692a2a23d92f68a2b6240ca7731709038bc225b58b

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 action rank Watertender remains distinct from the later or highest rank Chief Commissary Steward. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Concord; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Concord, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1898-05-21 and classifies the action under Spanish-American War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is off Cavite, Manila Bay, Luzon, Philippines; the current structured place off Cavite, Manila Bay, Luzon, Philippines and the complete inherited geocoder value Unknown remain preserved in the audit evidence. 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.

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