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Colonel Frank Tompkins (September 28, 1868 – December 21, 1954) was an officer in the United States Army. Tompkins served in numerous conflicts including the Spanish–American War in Cuba, the Philippine–American War, the Mexican Border War, and World War I. Recommended by General John J. Pershing for the Medal of Honor, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his leadership during the 1916 Battle of Columbus, New Mexico. ==Biography== Frank Tompkins was born September 28, 1868 in Washington, D.C., one of three surviving sons of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Henry Tompkins, a quartermaster officer in the United States Army, and Augusta Root (Hobbie) Tompkins. During the American Civil War Tompkins's father received the Medal of Honor leading his troop of the U.S. 5th Cavalry in a mounted charge at the Battle of Fairfax Court House and was later brevetted a brigadier general. His father later became Assistant Quartermaster General of the United States Army. Tompkins came from a noted military family. His grandfather was an 1820 graduate of the United States Military Academy and a veteran of the Mexican War, and his great-uncle Daniel D. Tompkins was the sixth Vice President of the United States. Tompkins's older brother was Colonel Selah "Tommy" Tompkins, a career officer with the 7th Cavalry who was its lieutenant colonel during the Punitive Expedition and led American forces during the Third Battle of Ciudad Juarez in 1919. His younger brother, also named Daniel D. Tompkins, became a colonel during World War I. Educated at private schools in St. Paul Minnesota and Chicago, Illinois, Tompkins graduated from Shattuck Military Academy and Braden's (West Point) Preparatory School at Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. Tompkins married Alice Gertrude Barr, daughter of Colonel Thomas F. Barr (later Judge Advocate General of the United States Army), on January 4, 1893 while stationed on Governors Island in New York City. They had two sons, the first dying in infancy. Tompkins' second son, Francis Parker Tompkins, was born in 1896 at Fort Leavenworth and graduated from West Point in 1918. While a major serving in the Office of Chief of Cavalry, Francis Tompkins served in June 1940 as the cavalry branch representative on the subcommittee of the Ordnance Technical Committee responsible for drawing up the specifications for the development of the jeep,〔("Chronology of the 1/4-ton Liaison Car Development" ) Early Jeep Documents repository, willys-overland.com. Retrieved 28 April 2015〕 and during World War II commanded Combat Command R of the 7th Armored Division from the Battle of the Bulge to the end of hostilities.〔(Francis P. Tompkins 1918, Memorial Page July 10, 1971 ), West Point Association of Graduates.org. Retrieved 28 April 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Tompkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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