Background
Patch, Alexander Mccarrell was born on November 23, 1889 in Fort Huachucua, Arizona, United States. Son of Alexander McCarrell and Annie (Moore) Patch.
Patch, Alexander Mccarrell was born on November 23, 1889 in Fort Huachucua, Arizona, United States. Son of Alexander McCarrell and Annie (Moore) Patch.
Student Lehigh University, 1908-1909. Graduate West Point Military Academy, 1913. Student British General Headquarters Machine Gun School, September-December 1917, General Staff College, 1924-1925, War College, 1930-1931.
Colonel, 1935; temporary rank of brigadier general, 1941. Major general, March 1942. Became commander United States Forces on Guadalcanal, December 1943.
Returned to the United States commanding Desert Training Center.
Then commander IV Army Corps, California. Commander 7th Army, Allied invasion ground forces, Southern France, August 1944.
Commander 7th Army, March 1, 1944, Lieutenant general August 7, 1944. Brigadier general (permanent), October 1945.
Member Psi Upsilon.; Club: Army-Navy Country (Washington).
Married Julia A. Littell, November 20, 1916. Children: Alexander McCarrell, III, (killed, France, October 22, 1944), Julia Ann, Commissioned Second lieutenant, United States Army, 1913.