Geoffrey Keyes was a highly decorated senior officer of the United States Army, with the rank of lieutenant general, who commanded II Corps during the Italian Campaign of.
Background
Geoffrey Keyes was born on October 30, 1888 in Fort Bayard, New Mexico as a son of United States. Army officer, Captain Alexander S. B. Keyes and his wife, Virginia Maxwell Keyes. Like his father, Geoffrey Keyes enrolled as a Cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point on March 2, 1908 and graduated on June 12, 1913 with the rank of Second Lieutenant.
Education
Graduated from the United States Military Academy, 1913, staff course, Army War College, Washington, Doctorate. Graduate Ecole Superieure de Guerre, Paris, 1933, Army War College, Washington, 1937.
Career
His first assignment was with the 6th Cavalry Regiment, where he served until October, 1916 and participated in the Pancho Villa Expedition. His next assignment was at United States Military Academy at West Point, where he served as an instructor of French language. He was also head football coach for one season in 1917. compiling a record of 7–1.
He also graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1926 and the Army War College in 1937.
He commanded the Seventh Army from 1945 to 1946 and the Third Army from 1946 to 1947. In 1947, Keyes was appointed United States. High Commissioner on the Allied Council for Austria.
He served as Director, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG) from 1951 to 1954. Keyes retired in 1954 and died on September 17, 1967 at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, District of Columbia He is interred at West Point.