Thomas Bentley Mott
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Colonel Thomas Bentley Mott (May 16, 1865 – December 17, 1952[citation needed]) was an American military officer and author who served as a liaison officer between General "Black Jack" Pershing and French Marshal Ferdinand Foch during World War I. He occupied this position from April 1914 until the end of the war, traveling with General Foch to each of his headquarters in Sarcus, Château de Mouchy, Bombon, and Senlis.[1] He is most noted for translating, editing and publishing the most important autobiography of General Ferdinand Foch, "The Memoirs of Marshal Foch" in 1931.
Career[edit]
Mott was born in Leesburg, Virginia, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1886. Commissioned as an Artillery officer, he returned to West Point to teach in 1890. He was the aide-de-camp to General Wesley Merritt during the Spanish American War, and the invasion of Manila, in 1898. Mott was appointed a military attaché in Paris in 1900, where he stayed for twenty years. He served for ten years under Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, before retiring in 1914, and returning to active service when the United States entered World War I (see external link: Social Networks).[2]
Mott married Rose Gabrille Georgette Saint Paul, a french heroine who ran a mobile hospital during World War I, on May 23, 1923. During World War II, Mott headed up the American Fund for wounded French.
Death[edit]
Mott died in 1952, in Biarritz, France, and is buried in Paris, France, along with his wife, Georgette (see external link: Find a Grave).
Works[edit]
- Scribner Magazine, Work and Play of the Military Attachés, Vol XXXIV, New York: Scribner, 1903, pp. 293–306
- Mott, T. Bentley, Myron T. Herrick, Friend of France, New York: Doubleday, 1929
- Mott, T. Bentley, The Memoirs of Marshall Foch, London: Heinemann, 1931
- Mott, T. Bentley (DSM)(CMG), The Memoirs of Marshal Joffre, Vol. I, London: Bles, 1932
- Mott, T. Bentley (DSM)(CMG), "The Memoirs of Marshal Joffre, Vol. II", London: Bles, 1932
- Mott, T. Bentley, "Twenty Years as Military Attache", New York: Oxford University Press, 1937
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ Mott, Bentley, "The Memoirs of Marshal Foch", p. xiii
- ^ https://digital-library.usma.edu/digital/collection/p16919coll3/id/19855/rec/9
References[edit]
- Mott, T. Bentley, The Memoirs of Marshall Foch, London: Heinemann, 1931
External links[edit]
- Social Networks and Archival Content (snac): Link
- Find a Grave
- 1865 births
- 1952 deaths
- American Expeditionary Forces
- American military personnel of the Philippine–American War
- American military personnel of the Spanish–American War
- American people of English descent
- United States Military Academy alumni
- United States Military Academy faculty
- 19th-century United States Army personnel
- Military personnel from Virginia
- United States Army personnel of World War I
- United States Army colonels