Edwin Price Ramsey and His Remarkable Service in WWII

[vienna]

I frequent the Beverly Hills Public Library and saw a recently placed exhibit about the service in WWII of Edwin Price Ramsey. The BHPL has been putting up exhibits over the past several months about the wartime service of persons associated with or living in Beverly Hills. One was in rememberance of a BH firefighter who died in the Afghan War and another was about the service of Jimmy Stewart in WWII. The most recent covers the service of Ramsey in the Phillipines, I had never heard about him before and was a bit surprised to learn he had led the last cavalry chrge in US Army history in support of defending the withdrawal of American troops ahead of the Japanese invasion. He routed a force of Japanese armor with just his horsemen and the went into the jungles to organize a guerilla warfare unit to harass the enemy, obtain intelligence, and support clandestine Allied activities. His service is the sort of story one e would expect from a Hollywood movie plot, but it actually happened and it is well worth the read...

Here are a couple of links:

http://hnn.us/article/139372

http://www.edwinpriceramsey.com/BeverlyHillsWeekly_TributeHero.pdf


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[swamprat69er]

I frequent the Beverly Hills Public Library and saw a recently placed exhibit about the service in WWII of Edwin Price Ramsey. The BHPL has been putting up exhibits over the past several months about the wartime service of persons associated with or living in Beverly Hills. One was in rememberance of a BH firefighter who died in the Afghan War and another was about the service of Jimmy Stewart in WWII. The most recent covers the service of Ramsey in the Phillipines, I had never heard about him before and was a bit surprised to learn he had led the last cavalry chrge in US Army history in support of defending the withdrawal of American troops ahead of the Japanese invasion. He routed a force of Japanese armor with just his horsemen and the went into the jungles to organize a guerilla warfare unit to harass the enemy, obtain intelligence, and support clandestine Allied activities. His service is the sort of story one e would expect from a Hollywood movie plot, but it actually happened and it is well worth the read...

Here are a couple of links:

http://hnn.us/article/139372

http://www.edwinpriceramsey.com/BeverlyHillsWeekly_TributeHero.pdf


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Good find. :up:

Good on Beverly Hills, too.:salute:

[Jimbuna]

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