Brehon Burke Somervell werd op 9 mei 1892 geboren als zoon van William Taylor Somervell en Mary Somervell-Burke. Hij huwde in augustus 1919 met Anna Purnell. Het echtpaar kreeg drie dochters.
Bevorderingen:
1 maart 1910: Cadet;
12 juni 1914: 2nd Lieutenant;
28 mei 1915: 1st Lieutenant;
15 mei 1917: Captain;
5 augustus 1917: temporary Major;
1 oktober 1918: temporary Lieutenant Colonel;
1 juli 1920: Major;
1 augustus 1935: Lieutenant Colonel;
29 januari 1941: temporary Brigadier General;
28 januari 1942: temporary Major General;
9 maart 1942: Lieutenant General;
1 juli 1942: Colonel;
1 september 1943: Brigadier General;
3 september 1943: Major General;
6 maart 1945: temporary General;
30 april 1946: Major General (Retired);
4 juni 1948: General (Retired).
Loopbaan:
1910: United States Military Academy, West Point;
1914: United States Army Corps of Engineers;
1914: Assistant, Military Attaché, Paris;
?: Engineer Battalion, Washington;
1916: Depot Manager, Columbus;
1917: Engineer School, Washington;
1917: 15th Engineers (Regiment)(Railway);
1918: Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3, 89th Division;
1918: Supply Officer G-4, 89th Division;
1919: Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4, Third Army;
1919: Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4, American Forces in Germany;
1920: Office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington;
augustus 1922: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth;
juni 1923: 1st New York Engineer District;
1923: River Study Europe, League of Nations;
1925: Army War College;
1926: District Engineer, Washington, D.C. Engineer District;
1 september 1930: Assistant Chief Engineer, Lower Mississippi Valley Division;
1931: Assistant District Engineer, Memphis District;
1932: District Engineer, Memphis District;
1933: Economic survey Turkey;
?: District Engineer, Ocala, Florida;
1935: Head, Works Progress Administration, New York City;
1941: Head, Construction Division, Quartermaster Corps;
1942 - 1945: Commanding General, U.S. Army Service Forces;
december 1945: Pensioen.
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