Joyce, Kenyon Ashe born 03-11-1879, in Brooklyn, 
Kings County, New York, USA, to Charles Malcom Joyce (1840–1904) and his wife Norma, born McLeod Kenyon Joyce (1843–1897).
Joyce entered the US Army 
during the Spanish American War 
as an enlisted man in the 1st Ill Infantry. He tranfered to the regular Army in 1900 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Cavalry in 1901. 
In 1910 Joyce married Helen Elizabeth, born Jones Joyce (1886–1951) 
Major-General-LeRoy-Springs-Lyon-far-left-commanding-the-31st-Division-with-Colonel-Kenyon-A.-Joyce-his-chief-of-staff-and-two-aides-France-October-1918. He fought against the Philippine Insurrection and lost the use of a hand from a trench mortar during the First World War.
He commanded the 1st Cavalry Division 
and later IX Corps 
in World War II.
When General of the Army Douglas MacArthur 
took overall command of Pacific Forces, IX Corps was moved to Leyte in the Philippine Islands and was assigned to the Sixth United States Army 
in July 1945. Commander of the Six Army was General Walter Krueger 
In Leyte, the corps was tasked with the planning of Operation Downfall, the invasion of mainland Japan, specifically the island of Kyushu. It was also tasked with planning occupation once Japan surrendered. IX Corps was assigned as one of four Corps under the command of the Sixth Army, with a strength of 14 divisions. With the 77th Infantry Division, 
the 81st Infantry Division 
and 98th Infantry Division, 
a force of 79,000 men, IX Corps would serve as the Sixth Army’s reserve force during the initial invasion. Before the assault could be launched, Japan surrendered in August 1945, following the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 
Joyce was a prominent cavalry officer in the early outset of the war and was a mentor to a young George Smith, “Old Blood and Guts” Patton. 
Joyce later appointed Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower 
as a chief of staff and is considered to have played a strong role in his development. He had initially sought to promote Eisenhower to command of a division, but Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall 
favored him for staff postings.
Joyce reached retirement age from the U.S. Army in 1943, at which point Eisenhower, by then a prominent officer in the European Theater, appointed him to the Allied Commission for Italy.
Death and burial ground of Joyce, Kenyon Ashe.
Kenyon Joyce died in 11-01-1960, aged 80, of leukemia at Letterman Army Hospital, in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, and a funeral service was held at Fort Myer. Joyce is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, VS, Section 30, Site: 1052 LH.
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