Background
Rockwell, Paul Ayres was born on February 3, 1889 in Marion County, South Carolina, United States. Son of James Chester and Loula (Ayers) Rockwell.
Rockwell, Paul Ayres was born on February 3, 1889 in Marion County, South Carolina, United States. Son of James Chester and Loula (Ayers) Rockwell.
Student Wake Forest (North Carolina) College, 1907-1908, Washington and Lee University, 1908-1910.
Divorced 1923);Jeanne Anne Loula (Mistress V. Jordan Brown). Married second, Prue Durant Smith, January 30, 1926. Children—Kiffin Yates, II, William James Kenneth, Reporter Atlanta (Georgia) Constitution, 1912-1914.
Member Paris staff Chicago Daily News, 1915-1919.
Free lance feature writer for American, French and English newspapers and magazines from 1919. Entered French Foreign Legion, 1914.
Transferred to Grand Headquarters French Army, 1917, as official war correspondent, served until 1919. Captain French aviation regiment during Riff War, Morocco, 1925.
Reserve officer French Foreign Legion.
Captain, French Army General Staff, 1940. Major United States Air Corps, June 1942, lieutenant colonel, March 1943, serving abroad September 1942 to June, 1946. Colonel, May 1946.
Member Paris staff Chicago Daily News, 1915-1919. Member Societedes Etudes Historiques (France), American Legion (honorary), Order of the Stars and Bars, North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati (president), North Carolina History Association (vice president 1936), Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the American Revolution, Society of War 1812, Sons of Confederate Veterans (assistant historian), Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta Nu Epsilon. Clubs: Cercle Interallie, Cercle Milltaire, Aeronautical Automobile, University (Paris).
Married Jeanne Leygues, December 2, 1916. Married second, Prue Durant Smith, January 30, 1926. Children: Kiffin Yates, II, William James Kenneth, Reporter Atlanta (Georgia.