Hartley Moon
Adjunct General of Alabama
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Colonel Hartley Allen Moon (February 5, 1877[1] – April 9, 1946[2]) was the adjutant general of Alabama[3] from 1919 to 1927.[4]
Moon was born in Goodwater, Alabama. At the rank of major, Moon commanded the US Infantry 167th 2nd Battalion[5][6] during World War I; they arrived in France in late 1917[5] and saw action in the Lorraine region in early 1918.[7] Moon was wounded in the action.[8]
After the war, he helped World War I flying ace James Meissner in the transformation of the Birmingham Flying Club into the 135th Observation Squadron, which was assigned to the state of Alabama in 1922.[3]
In the late 1920s, he had a house built in the Cloverdale-Idlewild neighborhood of Montgomery, a house which was later inhabited by Wayne Greenhaw. In the 1930s he served as colonel in the Alabama National Guard.[2]
He died in Montgomery, Alabama in 1946, aged 69.[1]