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Photo postcard of Chaplain John Axton at Fort Bliss New Mexico, holding refugee Mexican babies, surrounded by other children. Taken during Mexico Border War.
Written on negative ‘CHAPLAIN AXTON in Refugee Camp Fort Bliss - 20TH INFANTRY’
Photographer ‘OTA’
‘AZO’ photographic paper dates it to 1994-1918
Message on back ‘Chaplain 20th Inf with Mexican Kids
John Thomas Axton (1870 –1934) was a colonel in the United States Army who served as the first chief of chaplains from 1920 to 1928.
He was appointed a Chaplain, United States Army, with the rank of Captain, 1912; promoted to Major, 1917, and appointed Colonel, Chief of Chaplains, July 15, 1920.
Axton received the Army Distinguished Service Medal for his services during World War I.
He retired due to disability in the line of duty and thereafter served as Chaplain, Rutgers University, 1928-32.
US Troops Stationed Along the Mexican Border 1913 - 1919 Part 3
Camp El Paso, Texas
Staff Corps & Post N.C. Staff
Hospital Corps
Quartermaster Corps
4th Field Artillery
5th Field Artillery; Battery A.
7th Infantry
20th Infantry (less 1st Battalion)
