Thomas Bentley Mott

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.

Mott was born in Leesburg, Virginia and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1886.

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.

[2][3] At the end of the war Mott was awarded the Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur.

[4] Mott married Rose Gabrille Georgette Saint Paul, a French heroine who ran a mobile hospital during World War I and recipient of the Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, on May 23, 1923.

Thomas Bentley Mott and others, some in military uniform, stand in a row in front of a monument.
T. Bentley Mott (right) with General Alexis-Roger Hély d'Oissel (1859-1937), Myron Timothy Herrick (1854-1929), General Henri Gouraud (1867-1946), and sculptor Maxime Real del Sarte (1888-1954), May 1923.