Photograph of Paul A. Frey, the first Commander of the Goad-Ballinger American Legion Post. During World War I, Frey served as Captain of Company C, 130th Machine Gun Battalion, 35th Division. He also served with Company K, 2nd Missouri Infantry on the Mexican Border. He was Injured and wounded in the Battle for the Argonne Forest on September 29 1918.
Later in 1932 He became the Police Chief of Springfield Missouri and was involved in the pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde as they kidnapped a Local Police officer and ran to Joplin.
