Brigadier General Benjamin A. Poore, commanding the 7th Infantry Brigade, 4th Division, pictured here with members of his brigade staff at Chéry-Chartreuve, France, August 1918.
Thomas Henry Rees was a career officer in the United States Army. A veteran of the Spanish–American War and World War I, he served from 1886 to 1922 and attained the rank of brigadier general.
Rees as a captain, c. 1905