Warren Whitside Warren Webster Whitside was a career U . S . Army Colonel who served as a Cavalry and Quartermaster officer . He was posthumously inducted into the Quartermaster Hall of Fame in 2010 . Early life . Colonel Whitside was born in Toronto , Ontario , Canada on November 2 , 1875 , the son of a career cavalry officer , Brig . Gen Samuel M . Whitside . He spent the first fifteen years of his life among soldiers and Indians on the Western plains . He was educated at Kemper Military School , Boonville , Missouri , and the Washington and Lee University , Lexington , Virginia . Military career . In May 1898 Colonel Whitside left college just before graduating in answer to President William McKinley ’ s call to service during the Spanish American War . He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Cavalry in 1899 , and served for the next seven years as a lieutenant in the 10th Cavalry and 15th Cavalry Regiments . In 1906 he was promoted to Captain of Quartermaster Corps , and for the next 33 years he served in a variety of command and key leadership positions within the Quartermaster field . Colonel Whitside served on numerous campaigns including the Spanish American War in 1898 ; the Cuban Occupation from 1899 to 1902 with service as the aide - de - camp to his father , the Commanding General of the District of Santiago Cuba ; the Army of Cuban Pacification from 1906 to 1909 serving as a troop commander in the 15th Cavalry Regiment ; the Punitive Expedition along the Mexico - U . S . border in 1916 serving as the Commander of Motor Truck Company No . 11 ; and World War I during the Battle of Saint - Mihiel and Meuse - Argonne Offensive serving as the Commander of the 89th Division Trains and Military Police , a regimental level command for which he was awarded what was then the U . S . ’ s highest decoration for service , the Distinguished Service Medal . From 1912 to 1915 he was instrumental in the establishment and construction of the Aleshire Quartermaster Remount Depot , Front Royal , Virginia , serving as one of its first commanders . Following his return from the Punitive Expedition , he was the commander of Fort Apache from 1916 to 1917 . From 1920 to 1925 he served as the Fort Riley Post Quartermaster where he was singularly responsible for modernizing much of the post including training sites for the National Guard , one of which was named in his honor and to this day is recognized as Camp Whitside . From 1925 to 1930 he served as the Department Quartermaster for the Panama Canal Division . In 1930 he served as the Post Quartermaster of West Point , New York , followed by an assignment in Washington , D . C . , as the Chief of Storage and Distribution in the Office of the Quartermaster General ( OQMG ) . While assigned to OQMG , Colonel Whitside was featured on the cover of the July – August 1934 edition of the Quartermaster Review . From 1934 until his retirement in 1939 he returned to Front Royal as the Commander of the Remount Depot , which had evolved into the largest remount depot in the Army and served as a vital economic enterprise throughout the lower Shenandoah Valley of Virginia . Colonel Whitside retired from the military and started an apple cider business that ultimately failed . He was married for over 63 years to the former Miss Lillian Rigney of Bridgeport , Connecticut . He died in 1964 and was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery where his parents and brother were buried . Dates of rank . Colonel Whitside was posthumously inducted into the Quartermaster Hall of Fame in June 18 , 2010 at a ceremony at Fort Lee , Virginia .