George LeRoy Irwin

George LeRoy Irwin (April 26, 1868 – February 19, 1931) was a major general of the United States Army.

[2] His parents were colonel (later Army Brigadier General) Bernard J. D. Irwin, a surgeon in the Army Medical Corps who received the Medal of Honor in the Apache Wars, and his wife Antoinette Elizabeth Stahl Irwin.

[3] Irwin graduated from the United States Army War College in 1910.

[6] The general and his wife were buried at the West Point Cemetery next to his parents.

[7] In 1942, the Mojave Anti-Aircraft Range (today: Fort Irwin National Training Center) was named in his honor.

Brigadier General Irwin and staff at the Artillery School at Saumur , Maine-et-Loire , France, December 17, 1918.
Coat of Arms of George LeRoy Irwin