Cornélis DeWitt Willcox

Cornélis DeWitt Willcox (1861-1938) was a U.S. Army officer born in Geneva, Switzerland. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1880, the United States Military Academy (1885) and the Artillery School (1892), and in 1913 studied at the University of Grenoble.
He served in the Santiago campaign in 1898, in Manila from 1908-1910 and at West Point as a teacher of modern languages. He was promoted to colonel in 1914. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, he was in Spain and provided valuable assistance to the U.S. diplomatic service, helping Americans stranded by the war to move to the U.S.

In 1918, he was elected an honorary member of the Georgia Society of the Cincinnati.

His publications:
. A French-English technical military dictionary (1910)
. The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon (1912)
. A scientific and technical Spanish reader (1913)
. "French War" (1918)

Colonel Willcox and General John Wilson Ruckman helped found the "Journal of the United States Artillery" (1892) and, in 1915, became editor of the "International Military Digest".

 
Updated July 26, 2021