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Lee Corbin, Major General, United States Army, was born in 1883, who graduated
from West Point in 1905.
He was Assistant Quartermaster General of the
Army from 1940 to 1944. He retired due to disability in 1946 and
died in 1966. His wife Emeline Sweeny Corbin (1889-1960) is buried with
him.
He is buried in Section 2 of Arlington National
Cemetery, adjacent to Henry Clark Corbin, Lieutenant
General, United States Army.
Courtesy of Michael
T. Stein:
Major General Clifford Lee Corbin
Born February 12, 1883 in Dayton, Ohio
Died January 20, 1966
Cadet US. Military Academy 1901-05
Graduated as No. 4410, Class of 1905
Second Lieutenant 1905 (Coast Artillery)
First Lieutenant 1907
Captain 1916
Major (Temporary) 1917
Lieutenant Colonel (National Army) 1918
Colonel (National Army) 1918
Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army 1929
Colonel, United States Army 1935
Brigadier General (Army of the United States)
1940
Major General (Army of the United States)
1942
Served at Fort Totten (New York) 1905-08
Acting Aide-de-Camp to Major General Frederick
D. Grant April-July 1907
Commander, 135th Company (Mine), Coast Artillery
Corps, Ft. Totten 1908-10
Served with Provisional Regiment of Coast
Artillery, Galveston (Texas) 1910-11
Student Officer, Coast Artillery School 1911-12
Ordnance Officer, Coast Artillery School 1912-13
Served at Ft. Wadsworth (New York) 1913-15
Coast Artillery Defense Ordnance Officer,
Ft. Hamilton (New York) 1915
Military Attaché to Chile 1915-17
Adjutant, First Officer´s Training Camp,
Ft. McPherson (Georgia) 1917
Instructor of Artillery, Second Officer´s
Training Camp, Ft. Myer (Virginia) 1917
Commanding Officer, 4th Field Artillery, Camp
Wheeler 1917-18
Brigade Adjutant, 7th Field Artillery Brigade
1918
Commanding Officer, 5th Field Artillery (1st
Division) (served at Toul Front, Verdun, Coblenz)
Served with Office of Chief of Construction
Division, Army General Staff 1919-20
Student, Army Industrial College 1924-25
Served in the Philippines 1927-29
Commander, Chicago Quartermaster Depot&
Commandant, Quartermaster Subsistence School 1929-33
Chief American War Memorials in Europe (Paris)
1933-34
Executive Officer, Supply Division, Office
of the Quartermaster General 1934-36
Department Quartermaster, Hawaiian Department
1936-38
Depot Quartermaster, New York General Depot
1938-40
Assistant to the Quartermaster General &
Chief of Supply Division 1940-42
Director of Procurement Services, Office of
the Quartermaster General 1942-46
Retired November 30, 1946
Distinguished Service Medal
GENERAL CLIFFORD L. CORBIN, 82, OF QUARTERMASTER
DIVISION
WASHINGTON, January 21, 1966 – Major General
Clifford Lee Corbin, USA, retired, died of pneumonia yesterday at Walter
Reed General Hospital. He was 82 years old.
General Corbin, a 1905 graduate of the United
States Military Academy at West Point, retired in 1946 after more than
40 years of active service. He had received the Distinguished Service
Medal, after serving in the Quartermaster and Procurement Divisions of
the Army.
In 1933 he was chief of the American War Memorial
and Chief of the American Graves Registration Service in Paris. A
year later he was named Chief of the Procurement Branch in the office of
the Quartermaster General.
General Corbin was a native of Vandalia, Ohio.
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Robert Patterson
CORBIN, CLIFFORD LEE
M/GEN USA
VETERAN SERVICE DATES: Unknown
DATE OF BIRTH: 02/12/1883
DATE OF DEATH: 01/20/1966
DATE OF INTERMENT: 01/24/1966
BURIED AT: SECTION 2 SITE 857-1
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
CORBIN, EMALINE S W/O CORBIN, CLIFFORD LEE
DATE OF BIRTH: 10/27/1887
DATE OF DEATH: 06/06/1960
DATE OF INTERMENT: 06/09/1960
BURIED AT: SECTION 2 SITE 857-2
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
WIFE OF CL CORBIN - M/GEN USA
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By Michael Robert Patterson, 1999
Posted: 6 January 2002 Updated: 8 February 2002
Updated: 22 February 2003 Updated: 4 April 2004 Updated: 27 April
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