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Edmund B. Gregory

Edmund Bristol Gregory
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Lieutenant General Edmund Bristol Gregory
31stQuartermaster General of the United States Army
Born July 4, 1882 (1882-07-04)
Storm Lake, Iowa
Died January 26, 1961 (1961-01-27) (aged 78)
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Place of burial Arlington National Cemetery
Allegiance  United States of America
Service/branch Emblem of the United States Department of the Army.svg United States Army
Years of service 1904–1946
Rank US-O9 insignia.svg Lieutenant General
Commands held Quartermaster Corps
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Awards Distinguished Service Medal

Edmund Bristol Gregory was a Lieutenant General in the United States Army.

Gregory was born at Storm Lake, Iowa, on July 4, 1882.

He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1904, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry.

Gregory served with the 14th Infantry Regiment in the Philippines from 1904 to 1905. From 1905 to 1908 he was assigned to Vancouver Barracks in Washington.

He was again assigned to duty in the Philippines, serving from 1908 to 1910, when he was transferred to Fort William Henry Harrison, Montana, where he remained until 1911.

From 1911 to 1912 he was Professor of History and English at West Point. He then went to the Philippines for the third time, serving there until 1916.

Gregory served at the General Supply Depot in Jeffersonville, Indiana from 1917 to 1921 and transferred from the infantry to Quartermaster in 1920. From 1921 to 1922 he was assistant supply officer at Atlanta, Georgia's General Intermediate Depot.

He served in Shanghai, China from 1922 to 1924 and was an advisor to the New York National Guard from 1924 to 1927. Gregory was then assigned to the Office of the Quartermaster General in Washington, D.C. where he served from 1928 to 1933, and he received a master's of business administration degree from Harvard University in 1929.


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