Colonel Charles Donald Clay

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About Colonel Charles Donald Clay

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Captain Charles Donald Clay fought in the Spanish-American War and was seriously wounded in the Philippine Insurrection. He returned to service in 1917 well passed sixty years of age. Too old to fight in World War I he served throughout the war in the Quartermaster Corps, retiring a second time as a Colonel. He had educated his two sons to attend West Point and he insisted that his name sake, Charles D. Clay Jr., remain a cadet at the Academy. The younger Clay collected enough demerits to be expelled, but, alas, the war ended before he could participate.

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Colonel Charles Donald Clay's Timeline

1857
January 7, 1857
Lexington, KY
1897
July 21, 1897
Frankfort, KY
1899
1899
1903
1903
Lexington, KY
1904
October 20, 1904
Lexington, KY
1935
November 29, 1935
Age 78
Lexington, KY