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Meriwether Lewis Walker

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He served as a director of the Army Field Engineering School from 1912 to 1914. He served as chief engineer of Punitive Expeditions into Mexico from 1916 to 1917. He was chief engineer of American Expeditionary Forces from August 1918 to August 1919. He was chief maintenance engineer of the Panama
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and graduated from this institution in the summer of 1893. He was also commissioned a second lieutenant in the
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Canal from 1921 to 1924. He served as Panama Canal Zone Governor from 1924 to 1928.
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Walker was married to Edith Colby Carey, the daughter of Brigadier General
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as the son of Thomas Lidsay and Catherine Dabney Walker.
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Here is the ribbon bar of Brigadier General Walker:
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Governor of the Panama Canal Zone
Jay Johnson Morrow
Harry Burgess
Lynchburg, Virginia
Massachusetts
United States
United States of America
United States Army seal
United States Army

Brigadier General
Service number
Pancho Villa Expedition
World War I
Distinguished Service Medal
United States Army
Brigadier General
Panama Canal Zone
Lynchburg, Virginia
United States Military Academy at West Point
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Asa B. Carey


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Army Distinguished Service Medal

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