General Van Lydegraf graduated from the University of Oregon in 1944, the same year he completed Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the Infantry. He immediately joined the 301st Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division, and accompanied the unit to the European Theater of Operations in August 1944. He […]
The late Wayne A. Smith’s career spanned 45 years of service, both in the military and as a civil service employee. Throughout his career, Smith earned himself the reputation as “Mr. Supply” to the Quartermaster Corps. His military career began in World War II. He served in Corregidor, was captured by Japanese Army in 1942 […]
During a thirty year career, from 1972 until 2002, CSM Larry W. Gammon served in a variety of significant senior non-commissioned officer positions including Command Sergeant Major of the 99th Support Battalion, 9th Infantry Division DISCOM, Quartermaster NCO Academy, 23d Quartermaster Brigade, 45th Corps Support Group, 25th Infantry Division DISCOM, and the U.S. Army Quartermaster […]
US Army Quartermaster Foundation Fort Lee, Virginia Brigadier General Thomas S. Jesup 12th Quartermaster General May 1818 – June 1860 Father of the Modern Quartermaster Corps. General Thomas S. Jesup held the post of Quartermaster General for forty-two years. He has been described by one of his successors in that post as one of the […]
Technician Fifth Grade (T/5) Eric G. Gibson Medal of Honor Quartermaster Hall of Fame 1999 Tech 5 Gibson was born in Nysund, Sweden, grew up in Chicago, and was a Quartermaster soldier serving as a Company Cook with the 30th Infantry Regiment in World War II. He participated in the Allied invasion of Sicily, the […]
Brigadier General Richard N. Batchelder 18th Quartermaster General June 1890 – July 1896 Medal of Honor recipient Richard Napoleon Batchelder was born in New Hampshire on July 7, 1832. At the beginning of the Civil War he was appointed as 1st Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster for the 1st New Hampshire Infantry on May 2, 1861. […]
Lieutenant Colonel Wall entered the U.S. Army from Kentucky and went to Camp Bowie, Texas, in 1942 for basic training. Within a month he was appointed assistant platoon sergeant, and three months later was sent to Camp Lee, Virginia, to attend Quartermaster OCS. After being commissioned Second Lieutenant he continued service stateside as a QM […]
CW5 Rufus N. Montgomery, Sr., was a U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps Chief Warrant Officer Five who was widely recognized as one of the Army’s foremost food service advisors. Born in Pensacola, Florida he began his military career as an enlisted soldier in 1965, serving his first tour of duty as a combat Infantryman and later […]
Major General Charles C. Case was born in Raquette Lake, New York, on March 20, 1914, and died on January 25, 1996. He graduated from West Virginia University with a bachelor of arts degree in public speaking, and was commissioned in the US Army in 1936. He is a graduate of the Command and General […]
Major General Thomas Mifflin 1st Quartermaster General Thomas Mifflin, merchant, member of the Continental Congress, Revolutionary soldier and Governor of Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, PA on January 10, 1744. He graduated, at the early age of sixteen, from the College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation he spent four years working […]
Major General Dreska graduated from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, in 1960, with a bachelor’s degree in economics, and later earned a master’s degree in business administration from Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic course, Quartermaster Basic and Advanced Courses, Armed Forces Staff […]
Colonel Jackson entered the U.S. Army during World War II, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Artillery upon graduating from Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in July 1942. He went to Italy as a Commander in Battery B, 597th Field Artillery Battalion, and participated in the Rome, Arno, Po Valley, and North […]
Chief Warrant Officer Five William C. Mullins began his military career as an enlisted soldier in 1955 and rose to the rank of Sergeant First Class (P) before being commissioned a warrant officer in 1969. He served his first tour as a Chief Warrant Officer One (CW1) in Vietnam with an Air Defense Artillery Battery, […]
US Army Quartermaster Foundation Fort Lee, Virginia Brigadier General Montgomery C. Meigs 14th Quartermaster General May 1861 – February 1882 Appointed Quartermaster General in May 1861, during the Civil War, General Meigs was an efficient, hard-driving and scrupulously honest. He molded a large and somewhat diffuse department into a great tool of war. He was […]
