Medal of Honor
June 11, 1871
Korean Forts, Korea
- Rank at action
- Landsman
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Korean Campaign 1871
- Unit or command
- Ship's Company D, U.S.S. Colorado
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- William F. Lukes — 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-002499
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 180
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Seaman
- Entered service at
- Tientsin, China
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- ed08e63a272835d6991cb6c0608b256329b6f168215e8f542d9b99ef8b50518b
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 Landsman remains distinct from the later or highest rank Seaman. The controlled canonical unit or command is Ship's Company D, U.S.S. Colorado; the current structured profile renders Ship's Company D, U.S.S. Colorado, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1871-06-11 and classifies the action under Korean Campaign 1871; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved. The controlled historical action place is Korean Forts, Korea; the current structured place Korean Forts, Korea and the complete inherited geocoder value South Korea remain preserved. 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.