Leo Julius Meyer was born on September 11, 1895. He was married to Dorothy E Meyer. He was a retired Army officer and historian and former history teacher at New York University.

Colonel Meyer was an Army lieutenant in World War I and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University in 1921. He received an M.A. there in 1924 and a doctorate from Clark University in 1928. He taught history at N.Y.U. from 1928 to 1946 but was on military leave during World War II.

As chief of movements for the Transportation Corps in the Southampton, England, area, Colonel Meyer was deeply involved in the cross‐Channel landings in France. He received the Bronze Star and Legion of Merit. He was also given the freedom of the Borough of Southampton and made an honorary Officer of the British Empire.

Later as a civilian historian for the Department of the Army, he wrote “The Strategic and Logistical History of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.” He was also the author of “Relations between the United States and Cuba, 1898‐1917.”

Col. Meyer died on February 12, 1972, at the age of 76, and is now buried in the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA.

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