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Robert Alexander (United States Army officer)

United States Army general (1863–1941)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Major General Robert Alexander was a senior United States Army officer. He served in World War I, where he commanded the 77th Infantry Division, in which the famous Lost Battalion served, on the Western Front in 1918.

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“Robert Alexander (United States Army officer)” enters the record as united States Army general (1863–1941). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Robert, Alexander and United can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Alexander (United States Army officer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.