Medal of Honor
June 21, 1900
Tientsin, China
- Rank at action
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Conflict
- China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion)
- Unit or command
- Not documented
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Thomas Wilbur Kates — 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-002456
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 55
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Sergeant
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 35432c51d978591aba8110ef8b61657ebfc7a5498ed4c244bea240e8b692dce6
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 Private (Highest Rank: Sergeant); 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 current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1900-06-21 and classifies the action under China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion); the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Tientsin, China; the current structured place Tientsin, China and the complete inherited geocoder value Tianjin, Tianjin, China 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.