Gregory, Edmund Bristol

Gregory, Edmund , born 04-07-1882 in Storm Lake, Iowa, graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York on 15-06-1904. He rejoined the 14^th Infantry at Fort Lawton, Washington and was sent to the Philippines for his third tour with the 8^th Infantry. He attended the Army War College in 1937. He the served in the Office of Quartermaster General from June 1937 to 01-04-1940 when he was appointed as the Quartermaster General with the rank of Major General. On 14-04-1945 he was promoted to Lieutenant General, the first Quartermaster Officer to attain this rank. As Quartermaster General during World War II, General Gregory was responsible for the development, procurement, distribution of billions of dollars worth of equipment and supplies. He supervised the training of thousands of Quartermaster soldiers and controlled more than 90,000 military and civilian personnel. Over 900,000 personnel were employed by contractors under his supervision. General Gregory made the following pledge to the individual combat soldiers that the Quartermaster Corps supported, “Let me make this simple promise to the American people. The Quartermaster Corps will never fail you boys! We will deliver the goods. Wherever they go, to whatever point American fighting men penetrate, Quartermasters will be by their side to “Keep ’em Rolling to Victory!”.

  Gregory, not a battlefield General, served until his 1946 retirement, died at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. on 26-01-1961, age 78 and was buried with his wife Verna, born Green, who died age 78 in 1966, in Section 2, at Arlington National Cemetery. Close by in Section 2, the graves of General, Commander 92^nd “ Negro Division”, Edward “Ned” Almond, Major General, Commander 8^th Bomber Command Europe, Frederick Anderson, Rear Admiral, Commander Destroyer Greyson, Frederic Bell, Navy Admiral, “Operation Crossroads”, William Blandy, General, Commander 32^nd Infantry Division , Clovis Beyers, Navy Admiral. Battle of the Leyte Gulf, Robert Carne, Air Force General Lieutenant, Claire Chennault, Lieutenant General, Commander 4^th Corps, Italy Campaign, Willis Crittenberger, Brigadier General, First African-American General, Benjamin Davis, Quartermaster Lieutenant General, John Lesene De Witt, Major General and Head OSS, William “Wild Bill” Donovan

, Brigadier General, Speck Easley, Marine Corps Major General, Commander 1^st Raider Battalion, Merritt “Red Mike” Edson, Lieutenant General, VIII Army, Robert Eichelberger, Navy Admiral, Commander Nord Pacific Fleet, Frank Fletscher and Navy Admiral, Commander VII Forces, William Fechteler, Lieutenant General, Commander 86^th Infantry Division , Ridgeley Gaither, Major General, Commander , D-Day, Charles Gerhardt and Admiral, U.S. Chief of Naval Material, John Gingrich.