Background
WILLOUGHBY, Charles Andre was born on March 8, 1892 in Heidelberg, Germany. Son of Baron T. von Tscheppe-Weidenbach and Emma EveIvn Willoughby.
WILLOUGHBY, Charles Andre was born on March 8, 1892 in Heidelberg, Germany. Son of Baron T. von Tscheppe-Weidenbach and Emma EveIvn Willoughby.
Germany; France; Under-graduate studies: Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Arts, 1914. Advanced Course, Infantry. School, 1928; Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas., 1929-1931.
Private, Corporation, Sergt., Company K, Fifth Infantry., 1910-1913. Captain, Infantry., Officers Volunteer Corps, 1914-1916. Captain, Infantry., Officers Reserve Corps, 1916.
Appointed Second Lieutenant, Regular Army upon competitive examinations, 1916. First Lieutenant, 1916. Captain, Infantry., 1917.
Major, Service in American Expeditionary Forces. A.D.C. to General Bundy. Liaison Officer, First Division., with 48 Chasseurs Alpine.
Assigned to Air Service. Pilot Issoudun Instructor. Centre; in command Aviation Centre, Chatearoux, organized first Aerial Mail Service until taken over by Post Office Department, 1919.
Foreign Service, Porto Rico, 1920-1923. Military Attache, United States Legation, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, 1927. December: Order of Liberator, 2 Class, Venezuela.
A1 merito, 1 Class, Ecuador. Star of Abdon, Calderon. San Mauricio e Lazzaro, (Officer) Italy.
Medaille d’ Honneur, Affaires Etrangers, France. Author of contributions to the bulletin of Pan-American Union, Studies on Highway System of Venezuela, 1926. Simon Boliver, 1925; also miscellaneous articles in other magazines.
Member: Phi Gamma Delta (1913). Masons; Howe Lodge, Howe, Indiana. (1915). Club: Army and Navy (Washington, District of Columbia, 1915).
Spouse Juana M. Rodriguez. March 1923, San Juan, Porto Rico.