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Mar 23, 2020 · After his graduation and his commissioning as a second lieutenant, he married his first wife, Irma Baulsir on September 5, 1929. His first assignment was to Camp Harry J. Jones near Douglas ...
- Steve Balestrieri
James Maurice Gavin was a Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army who served in World War II and the Korean War. He married Irma Baulsir in 1929, a year after they met at West Point. She was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and a member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
May 22, 1994 · A few months later he married a Washingtonian, Irma ("Peggy") Baulsir, a relationship that soon turned sour but produced a daughter. In 1947, the Gavins finally divorced and he married Jean...
- Clay Blair
May 19, 2017 · Upon graduating, in June, 1929, then 2nd Lieutenant Gavin married the former Irma Baulsir, on Sept. 5, 1929. This would be the first of two marriages for the future general. After divorcing his wife, Irma, then-MG Gavin married his second wife, the former Jean Emert Duncan, in July, 1948.
- Downtowner
After his graduation and his commissioning as a second lieutenant, he married Irma Baulsir on September 5, 1929. Various postings. Gavin was posted to Camp Harry J. Jones near Douglas, Arizona, on the U.S.–Mexican border. This camp housed the 25th Infantry Regiment (one of the entirely African-American Buffalo Soldier regiments).
- 1924–1958
- Infantry Branch
Irma Margaret Baulsir married James Maurice Gavin. She passed away on 9 Mar 1989 in Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
He married Irma Baulsir on 5 September 1929. They had one daughter and divorced in 1943. In the army Gavin was made first lieutenant in 1934 and captain in 1939, following which he taught tactics at West Point until 1941.
