WWII USA Army Brigadier General Edgar King Signed Autograph Military Photograph for Sale

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WWII USA Army Brigadier General Edgar King Signed Autograph Military Photograph For Sale

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WWII USA Army Brigadier General Edgar King Signed Autograph Military Photograph:
$562.46

LOT-O282. For your consideration is a rare and important original antique c.1900 CDV photograph of U.S. Army Brigadier General Edgar King, hand-signed by Major General King. Condition is original. Autograph is manuscript hand-signed in black ink on verso. Photograph is original. Rare, early photograph of Edgar King. Photograph mounted measures approximately 8.8\" x 7.0\". Photograph measures 3.5\" x 5.25\". Museum quality. One of a kind. Authentic and correct.

Edward Postell King, Jr. (July 4, 1884 – August 31, 1958) was a major general in the United States Army who gained prominence for leading the defense of the Bataan Peninsula in the Battle of Bataan against the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in World War II.

Initially, King\'s family wanted him to be a lawyer, but he desired a more adventurous career. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant of infantry in the Georgia National Guard in February 1905. King applied for and received a commission as a second lieutenant of field artillery in the Army in 1908. He served with distinction during World War I, earning the Army Distinguished Service Medal. On 9 July 1918, President Wilson authorized the awarding of the Army\'s Distinguished Service Medal to Major King, with the citation for the medal reading as follows:

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Major (Field Artillery) Edward P. King, Jr., United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I. As Principal Assistant to the Chief of Field Artillery, from 23 March 1918 to 11 November 1918, Major King contributed largely to the successful solution of the difficult problems of expansion, organization, and training which then confronted the Field Artillery.

After the war, King was an honor graduate of the Command and General Staff School in 1923 and then graduated from the Army War College in 1930 and the Navy War College in 1937. Between World War I and World War II, he held several important assignments, including that of instructor in both the Army and Navy War Colleges. In 1940, King was sent to the Philippines, where he was promptly promoted to brigadier general; he served as General Douglas MacArthur\'s second highest-ranking ground officer, after General Jonathan Wainwright.