M.A.W. Shockley

American general and surgeon
Battles/wars

M.A.W. Shockley (Major August W. Shockley) was a U.S. Army medical corps officer. He was a veteran of the Philippine–American War, and retired as a brigadier general.

Military career appointments

  • Havana, Cuba, 1899, during this assignment he treated soldiers with yellow fever [1]
  • Philippine–American War, 1909 [2]
  • Division of Militia Affairs, departed in August 1919 [3]
  • Fort Leavenworth, arrived in 1919, Head of the Medical Department at the Army Service School [3][4]
  • Camp Knox, departed in September 1922 [5]
  • William Beaumont Army Medical Center, appointed commander in September 1922 [6]
  • Assistant Surgeon General of the Army, appointed in 1925, promoted to brigadier general in 1925 [7]
  • Carlisle Barracks, retired from this position on 1 October 1936, commander, brigadier general[8]

M.A.W. Shockley was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.[9]

See also

Personal life

M.A.W. Shockley's father (William B. Shockley) was a surgeon for the Army of the Cumberland, United States Volunteers, during the American Civil War.[10]

References

  1. ^ United States War Dept (1899). Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1899. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. p. 614.
  2. ^ Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Frank Pierce Foster, Charles Euchariste de Medicis Sajous, Gregory Stragnell, Henry J. Klaunberg, Felix Marti-Ibanez (1909). International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics. Vol. 89. p. 980.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b The Military Surgeon: Journal of the Association of Military. Vol. 36–37. Chicago: The Association of Military surgeons of the United States. 1915. p. 290.
  4. ^ Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 72. 1919. p. 1776.
  5. ^ Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times. Vol. 72. 1922. p. 238.
  6. ^ US Government. "WBAMC history". Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  7. ^ US Government. "Official Portrait of M.A.W. Shockley (reverse side)". Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  8. ^ "The Evening News from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania". 1 October 1936. p. 25.
  9. ^ Register of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Boston: Commandery of the united State of Massachusetts. 1 January 1906. p. 207.
  10. ^ Clarke, Robert (1888). Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Vol. 18. Cincinnati: Society of the Army of the Cumberland. p. 273.