| 词条 | Edmund B. Gregory |
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|name=Edmund Bristol Gregory |birth_date={{Birth-date|July 4, 1882}} |image=Edmund B Gregory.jpg |caption= Lieutenant General Edmund Bristol Gregory 31stQuartermaster General of the United States Army |death_date={{death-date and age|January 26, 1961|July 4, 1882}} |birth_place=Storm Lake, Iowa |death_place=Walter Reed Army Medical Center |placeofburial=Arlington National Cemetery |placeofburial_label= Place of burial |allegiance={{flag|United States of America}} |branch= United States Army |serviceyears=1904–1946 |rank= Lieutenant General |commands=Quartermaster Corps |battles=World War I World War II |awards=Distinguished Service Medal }} Edmund Bristol Gregory (July 4, 1882 – January 26, 1961) was a Lieutenant General in the United States Army. Early life and educationGregory was born at Storm Lake, Iowa, on July 4, 1882.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1904, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry. {{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} Military careerGregory 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.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} From 1933 to 1936 Gregory was assigned to Headquarters, II Corps and he graduated from the Army War College in 1937.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} Gregory served again in the Office of Quartermaster General beginning in 1937, and in 1940 he was appointed as the Army's Quartermaster General, advancing from Colonel directly to Major General. In 1945 he was promoted to Lieutenant General, the first Quartermaster Officer to attain this rank. As Quartermaster General during World War II, he oversaw the development, procurement and distribution of billions of dollars worth of equipment and supplies. Gregory also supervised the training of thousands of quartermaster soldiers. In addition, he had responsibility for over 900,000 civilian personnel employed by contractors to produce supplies, equipment, ammunition and vehicles for the war effort. After the war he was assigned as Chairman of the War Assets Corporation, responsible for disposing of the surplus of wartime bases, supplies and equipment, where he served until his 1946 retirement.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} Death and legacyGeneral Gregory died at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. on January 26, 1961 and was buried in Section 2, Lot E 134-2 at Arlington National Cemetery.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} His commendations and decorations included two awards of the Distinguished Service Medal, Philippine Campaign Medal, Mexican Border Service Medal, World War I Victory Medal, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal .{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} General Gregory was one of the first inductees of the Quartermaster Hall of Fame during the hall's 1986 charter year. {{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} Sources
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