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Philippine Insurrection Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient 1st. Lt. William Palmer Maclay, US Army
William P. Maclay was born in Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania, in 1877, he earned the Medal of Honor while serving in Company A, 43rd United States Infantry, United States Volunteers, in the Philippines Insurrection on May 6, 1900, at Hilongas, Leyte, Philippine Islands. The Medal was actually presented to him on March 11, 1902. He died on July 31, 1943 and was buried in Section 7 of Arlington National Cemetery.
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Rank and organization: Private, Company A, 43d Infantry, U.S. Volunteers. Place and date: At Hilongas, Leyte, Philippine Islands, 6 May 1900. Entered service at: Altoona, Pennsylvania. Birth: Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania. Date of issue: 11 March 1902. Citation: Charged an occupied bastion, saving the life of an officer in a hand-to-hand combat and destroying the enemy.
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