Hartley Moon

Colonel Hartley Allen Moon (February 5, 1877^[1] – April 9, 1946^[2]) was the adjutant general of Alabama^[3] from 1919 to 1927.^[4]

Moon was born in Goodwater, Alabama. At the rank of major, Moon commanded the US Infantry 167th 2nd Battalion^[5]^[6] during World War I; they arrived in France in late 1917^[5] and saw action in the Lorraine region in early 1918.^[7] Moon was wounded in the action.^[8]

After the war, he helped World War I flying ace James Meissner in the transformation of the Birmingham Flying Club into the 135th Observation Squadron, which was assigned to the state of Alabama in 1922.^[3]

In the late 1920s, he had a house built in the Cloverdale-Idlewild neighborhood of Montgomery, a house which was later inhabited by Wayne Greenhaw. In the 1930s he served as colonel in the Alabama National Guard.^[2]

He died in Montgomery, Alabama in 1946, aged 69.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Hartley A Moon (1877 - )". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Troops to Guard Vote Inquiry". The New York Times. 12 November 1934.
^ ^a ^b Scales, Matt. "James Armand Meissner" (PDF). 117th Air Refueling Wing. Air National Guard. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
^ Owen, Mary Bankhead (1930). Alabama Historical Quarterly. 1. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ ^a ^b Screws, William P. (1919). Alabama's Own in France. New York: Eaton & Gettinger.
^ Johnson, Harold Stanley (1917). Roster of the Rainbow division (forty-second) Major General Wm. A. Mann commanding. Eaton & Gettinger. p. 370. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
^ Frazer, Nimrod T. (5 September 2010). "Remembering F Company". The Gadsden Times. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
^ "Captain Thompson Must Suffer Some More". The Huntsville Daily Times. 30 September 1919. p. 5. Retrieved 29 December 2011.