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Medal of Honor Recipient

William Rees Rush

U.S. Navy · Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)

MOH-RC-002638Source-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: 1915

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Medal of Honor

April 21–22, 1914

Vera Cruz, Mexico

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)
Unit or command
U.S.S. Florida
Presentation date
December 4, 1915

The Citation

Sources ↓
For distinguished conduct in battle, engagements of Vera Cruz, 21 and 22 April 1914. In command of the naval brigade, Capt. Rush was in both days' fighting and almost continually under fire from soon after landing, about noon on the 21st, until we were in possession of the city, about noon of the 22d. His duties required him to be at points of great danger in directing his officers and men, and he exhibited conspicuous courage, coolness and skill in his conduct of the fighting. Upon his courage and skill depended in great measure success or failure. His responsibilities were great, and he met them in a manner worthy of commendation.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. William Rees Rush — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002650
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
177
Later or highest recorded rank
Rear Admiral
Accredited to
Pennsylvania
Archive transcription SHA-256
ed6d64cfee2cb5f5be509e92b255cbf552f71edf6267739066d3766c7d13e869

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

The structured Society field gives April 21, 1914, while the rendered citation describes the April 21–22 engagements. The complete two-day chronology is controlled while the structured starting date remains separately attributed; Captain and later Rear Admiral ranks remain distinct. Recovery provenance: the prior live-verification result is reconstructed because the described P10-C060–P10-C062 restart files were not physically available; the verified P10-C059 authority, retained web-reference metadata, legacy record, and prior session evidence are all preserved.

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