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.

From the description of Edgar Erskine Hume collection, 1918-1952. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 48093523

...