Kenyon A. Joyce

Major General LeRoy Springs Lyon (far left), commanding the 31st Division, with Colonel Joyce, his chief of staff, and two aides, France, October 1918.

Kenyon Ashe Joyce (November 3, 1879 - January 11, 1960) was a major general in the United States Army. He commanded the 1st Cavalry Division and later IX Corps in World War II.

Joyce was a prominent cavalry officer in the early outset of the war and was a mentor to a young George S. Patton. He later appointed Dwight D. Eisenhower as a chief of staff and is considered to have played a strong role in his development. He had initially sought to promote Eisenhower to command of a division, but Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall favored him for staff postings. He commanded the Ninth Service Command from July 1942 to October 1943.

Joyce reached retirement age from the U.S. Army in 1943, at which point Eisenhower, by then a prominent officer in the European Theater, appointed him to the Allied Commission for Italy.

Joyce died in January 1960, aged 80, and a funeral service was held at Fort Myer.

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