MILITARY SERVICE:
Served in the U.S. Army 27 years, Private to Lieutenant Colonel
Enlisted
in U. S. Army at Staunton, Va. March 4 1940, buck private.
Assigned to Fort Belvoir, VA, Medical Detachment, Station Hospital. Served there as Pvt. to 1st Sgt.
Volunteered for Officers Training Camp in Camp Barkley, Texas - made a Second Lt. Medical Service Corps.
Served at Station Hospital Camp Campbell, KY as Company Commander, Property Officer etc.
Volunteered for Infantry Training at Fort Benning, GA.
Converted to Infantry and assigned to Fort Ord, CA - served as training officer in charge of Machine gun and rifle ranges for several months.
Assigned to Fort Riley, KS for training in Mule Packing - big battles going on in indo-china where pack officers were in short supply.
Volunteered for Office of Strategic Services, OSS, General "Wild Bill" Donovan's outfit. Sent to China. Served along-side Chinese Nationalist troops until Hiroshima (was in the field when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and when peace was signed).
Back to US via India.
Joined AL National Guard, 31st Infantry Division soon
after leaving Army (The Army was reducing its size and Roy was not allowed to re-enlist).
Sent to Fort Benning, GA at beginning of hostilities in
Korea. Volunteered as a Captain for chance to become Medical Service Officer . Assigned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
DC .
Shipped out almost immediately as chief chemist for a research team studying kidney failure in severely wounded young troops. Served in Korea for more than a year doing research.
Served as Chief of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Army Institute of Research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center until retirement. (Total Active and reserve service - 27 years).
Military Decorations:
Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, American Defense, China, Burma, India Defense, Korea Service.
EDUCATION:
B.S. - Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama
M.S. Pharmacology - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Ph.D. - University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Taught 17 years at University of Alabama, Birmingham - School of Medicine (Associate to Professor)
Proud member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans: "I promise to honor the cause that these men fought and died for."
