Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Ayers, Henry Fairfax |
Date Born |
04/23/1886 |
Deceased |
01/09/1979 |
Place of Death |
Shaftsbury, Vermont |
Father |
Ayers, Charles Greenlief |
Spouse |
Ayers, Mary |
Children |
Ayers, Henry |
Notes |
Colonel Ayres was a graduate of the United States Military Academy in the class of 1908. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Field Artillery of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. After the war, he was a securities broker in New York City with Blair Company Investment Bankers and lived in Rye, New York. Colonel Ayres retired in 1937 and moved to Vermont. There he was the legal committee chairman of the Vermont Sugar Makers Association and was instrumental in passing the grading law for maple syrup. He re-entered theservice as a Colonel in the Air Force following the ourbreak of World War II, overseeing the convoying of pilots and flight crews to the Pacific and European theatrs of operation. He retired in 1945 after being injured while on a PT Boat raid in the Dover Straits. Buried at Arlington National Cemetery. |
