- SURNAME
Buxton
- FORENAME
Gonzalo Edward,Jr
- UNIT
OSS
- RANK
Colonel
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Medal for Merit
- PLACE
WW2
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 13.5.1880 Kansas City,Missouri
son of Dr Edward and Sarah A. (nee Harrington) Buxton
graduated Highland Military Academy,Worcester 1898
graduated Brown University 1902 (Ph.B.)
reporter/assistant telegraph editor,"The Providence Journal"
graduated Harvard Law School (LL.B.)
manager,Title Guarantee Company December 1906-December 1911
Executive Secretary,Brown Endowment Company December 1911-April 1912
Treasurer,Providence Journal Company September 1912
correspondent,"The Providence Journal" August 1914-January 1915
Chairman,Organization Committee on Public Safety,Rhode Island 1915-16
military career
Company A,Rhode Island Militia (2Lt) 1900 (1 Lt 1901-03)
3 Company,Coast Artillery Corps,Rhode Island National Guard (Cap) 1906-11
Major and Judge Advocate,Rhode Island National Guard 1912-October 1916
commissioned Major,Infantry,Reserve Corps,US Army 26.10.1916
2 Bn 1st Officers' Training Camp,Fort Oglethorpe,Georgia
2 Bn 328th Infantry Regiment,82nd Division 8.5.1917-26.8.1917
328th Infantry Regiment (LtCol) 28.2.1919
OSS in WW2
author "Official History of 82nd Division,American Expeditioary Forces"
married Aline H. Armstrong (of Louisville,Kentucky) 19.1.1910 (1 son,Coburn Allen, born 6.6.1912 Providence,Rhode Island)
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