Hartley Moon Explained

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

Moon was born in Goodwater, Alabama. At the rank of major, Moon commanded the US Infantry 167th 2nd Battalion^{[3] [4]} during World War I; they arrived in France in late 1917^[3] and saw action in the Lorraine region in early 1918.^[5] Moon was wounded in the action.^[6]

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.^[7]

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.^[8]

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hartley A Moon (1877 -). Ancestry.com. 29 December 2011.
2. Owen. Mary Bankhead. 1930. Alabama Historical Quarterly. 1.
3. Book: Screws, William P.. Alabama's Own in France. 1919. Eaton & Gettinger. New York.
4. Book: Johnson, Harold Stanley. Roster of the Rainbow division (forty-second) Major General Wm. A. Mann commanding. 29 December 2011. 1917. Eaton & Gettinger. 370.
5. News: Remembering F Company. Frazer. Nimrod T.. 5 September 2010. The Gadsden Times. 29 December 2011.
6. News: Captain Thompson Must Suffer Some More. 30 September 1919. The Huntsville Daily Times. 5. 29 December 2011.
7. Web site: James Armand Meissner. Scales. Matt. 117th Air Refueling Wing. Air National Guard. 29 December 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120915091544/http://www.117arw.ang.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-110901-030.pdf. 15 September 2012.
8. News: Troops to Guard Vote Inquiry. 12 November 1934. The New York Times.