Lilly, Jr., Edmund, COL

Deceased

Photo In Uniform

Service Details

Last Rank
Colonel

Last Service Branch
Infantry

Last Primary MOS
1542-Infantry Unit Commander

Last MOS Group
Infantry

Primary Unit
1950-1953, 9310, Fourth (4th) Army

Service Years
1917 - 1953

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

North Carolina

Year of Birth
1894

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Contact Info

Home Town Fayetteville	Last Address 508 Oakridge Avenue Fayetteville, NC 38305
Date of Passing Nov 28, 1978
Location of Interment Cumberland Memorial Gardens - Fayetteville, North Carolina

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Other Comments:

COL Lilly's diaries and other papers can be found at this link:
usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/resources/archival/lilly/ejlinv.asp

There are transcriptions and scans of diaries that he kept as well as lists of fellow POWs and other information. These papers were donated by COL Lilly's family to the Combined Arms Research Library in 1998. They are mostly related to his time in captivity by the Japanese during WWII.

Also, COL Lilly conducted an interview in 1976 with a member of the East Carolina University history faculty and it can be found at this link:
digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0306/

This interview includes some of COL Lilly's experiences in WWI, prior and post WWII.

1947-1950, 2136, HQ, 7th Army

From Month/Year September / 1947	To Month/Year April / 1950
Unit HQ, 7th Army Unit Page
Rank Colonel	MOS 2136-Unit Officer, Nontactical
Base, Fort or City Paris	State/Country France

Patch	HQ, 7th Army Details

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Last Updated: Jul 5, 2018

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14 Members Also There at Same Time

HQ, 7th Army

Eddy, Manton Sprague, LTG, (1916-1953)	USA	0002	Lieutenant General
White, Isaac, GEN, (1923-1961)	USA	0002	Lieutenant General
Palmer, Charles Day, GEN, (1924-1962)	USA	0002	Major General
Gjelsteen, Einer, MG, (1923-1957)	IM	2025	Brigadier General
Hart, Charles, LTG, (1924-1960)	FA	1193	Brigadier General
Hedberg, William Lawrence, T/5, (1946-1947)	QM	60	Technician Fifth Grade
Griswold, Oscar Woolverton, LTG, (1910-1947)			General
Gurnee, Quinby DeHart, CPT, (1941-1947)			Captain
Cox, Edward Jan, SFC, (1949-1966)			Sergeant
Thomas, Cecil, SFC, (1944-1970)			Private

558th Ordnance Company

Schneider, Abraham, S/SGT, (1948-1951)	OD		Staff Sergeant
Schneider, Abraham, S/SGT, (1948-1951)	OD		Staff Sergeant

Vienna Area Command

Lewis, Thomas, BG, (1922-1953)	USA	0002	Brigadier General
Larsen, Kenneth Wesley, PVT, (1948-1954)	OD	4014	Private First Class
Blummer, Raymond, 2LT, (1943-1947)			Second Lieutenant