Hume, Edgar Erskine, 1889-1952

Edgar Erskine Hume, a major general in the U.S. Army medical corps, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1889. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Centre College in Danville and earned a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1913. He entered the U.S. Army medical corps in 1916 and commanded all American hospitals in Italy before transferring to France near the end of World War I. He later directed the American Red Cross in Serbia during a typhus epidemic. During World War II, Hume served as staff officer with Gen. Mark Clark's 5th Army. After he accepted the surrender of Naples in September 1943, Hume commanded the Allied military government in the 5th Army's Italian sector. He died in January 1952 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Army officer. Died 1952.

Edgar Erskine Hume (b. Dec. 26, 1889, Frankfort, Kentucky-d. Jan. 24, 1952), Brigadier General in the U.S. Army, was a physician commissioned in the Medical Corps in 1916 and graduated from Army Medical School in 1917. He served with the British Expeditionary Forces in World War I and was wounded in 1918. Following further higher education at Harvard, M.I.T., and Johns Hopkins, he became Director of Administration at the Medical Field Service School, was wounded in the Italian campaign, and served as Chief Medical Officer for Allied Military Government, Fifth Army, until the end of World War II. After the War, he was chief medical officer for the military government in the U.S. Zone of Austria and chief surgeon in the Far East Command until his retirement in December 1951.