Who's this with Zhang Zuolin?

[Peter H]

Does anyone know who is the American officer pictured with the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin?

To the left is Zhang's son,Zhang Xueliang: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xueliang

Likely candidates for the American are:

Brigadier-General William D Connor,Commanding General of US Army forces in China, 1923 to 1926
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Durward_Connor

Brigadier-General Joseph C Castner,Commanding General of US Army forces in China, 1926 to 1929

[Steen Ammentorp]

Peter,

I think you are correct about Connor:

I made a search in the Google News archives on: "chang tso-lin" "william * connor" and I got a reference to this article in the Chicago Tribune February 27, 1927: "Uncle Sam's Infantry in China" I can only get a snipet view of it (Pay-Per-View, but it says:

tOUR FRIEND CHANG TSO LIN AGAIN, trick hat and all, receiving a salute from the ... Chang Tso Lin of Manchuria i' at the center. On his right is his son

Now Connor is mention in that article. Any bets on whether this is the picture caption for exactly this photo?

[Peter H]

Thanks Steen,thats great.

George C Marshall commanded the US 15th Regiment under Connor at Tientsin 1924-1927 so we sometimes forget how the Chinese experience moulded the US Army in WW2.Others like Ridgeway and Maxwell Taylor also served under Marshall.

Regards
Peter

[DavidFrankenberg]

He does not look like wiki photo of him :

no glasses, no chubby face

Chang_Shueliang.jpg

Zhang_Xueliang.jpg

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Does anyone know who is the American officer pictured with the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin?

To the left is Zhang's son,Zhang Xueliang: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xueliang

Likely candidates for the American are:

Brigadier-General William D Connor,Commanding General of US Army forces in China, 1923 to 1926
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Durward_Connor

Brigadier-General Joseph C Castner,Commanding General of US Army forces in China, 1926 to 1929

That young could be the interpreter or adjutant of Zhang Zuolin, not his son.

Rgds