M.A.W. Shockley Explained

M.A.W. Shockley
Allegiance:	United States
Branch:	United States Army
Rank:	Brigadier general
Unit:	William Beaumont Army Medical Center
Battles:	Spanish–American War 1899 Philippine–American War 1909

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 ^[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

• William Beaumont Army Medical Center

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]

Notes and References

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