Keyes, Geoffrey, born 30-10-1888 in Ford Bayard, New Mexico,
as a son of U.S. Army officer, Captain Alexander S. B. Keyes and his wife, Virginia Maxwell Keyes. Like his father, Geoffrey Keyes enrolled as a Cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point
on 02-03-1908 and graduated on June 12-06-1913 with the rank of Second Lieutenant. His first assignment was with the 6th Cavalry Regiment
, where he served until October, 1916 and participated in the Pancho Villa Expedition

















He commanded the Seventh United States Army from 1945 to 1946 and the Third United States Army from 1946 to 1947. In 1947 Keyes was appointed U.S. High Commissioner on the Allied Council for Austria.
Death and burial ground of Keyes, Geoffrey.



He served as Director, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG) from 1951-1954. Keyes retired in 1954. He died age 78, on 17-09-1967 in Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C. and is buried with his wife Leila, born Harrison, who died age 62, on 21-03-1956, at the US Military Academy Post Cemetery at West Point. Closeby the graves of General, “Omaha Beach” , D-Day, Assistant Division Commander of the 29th Infantry Division, nicknamed “Blue and Gray”
Norman Cota,
Lieutenant General 82nd Airborne Division,
“Slim Jim” James Gavin,
and General, 7th Army, Alexander “Sandy” Patch.






