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Medal of Honor Recipient

George Weed Wallace

U.S. Army · Philippine Insurrection

MOH-RC-000545Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1900

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Medal of Honor

March 4, 1900

Tinuba, Luzon, Philippine Islands

Rank at action
Second Lieutenant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
Philippine Insurrection
Unit or command
9th U.S. Infantry

The Citation

Sources ↓
With another officer and a native Filipino, was shot at from an ambush, the other officer falling severely wounded. 2d Lt. Wallace fired in the direction of the enemy, put them to rout, removed the wounded officer from the path, returned to the town, a mile distant, and summoned assistance from his command.

Sources & record notes

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  1. George Weed Wallace — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000551
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-26
Later or highest recorded rank
Lieutenant Colonel
Entered service at
Denver, Colo.
Archive transcription SHA-256
422749322182e3bbd43036afe6ae9b00e7fc067a510eee2322c7c71c3fc35cb2

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

The current official profile expands the middle name, preserves Second Lieutenant as the action rank and Lieutenant Colonel as the later rank, and replaces the inherited station geocoder result with Tinuba, Luzon.