Charles G. Irving, Sr. Past Commander of Charles T. Norwood Post 157 and Past Vice-Commander of Division Six of North Caroline Department of the American Legion. Post Commander Irving was a strong supporter of American Legion programs. He organized the post’s first unit of the Sons of the American Legion that saw his son the late Charles G. Irving, Jr., Post 157 Historian, serving in the unit during his youth. Legionnaire Irving, Sr., was troubled that Black Legionnaires could not participate in American Legion core programs with all American Legion Post state-wide and Nationally. It was under his leadership that that the division of Black and White American Legion Posts in North Carolina was resolved
Order of Induction into Military Service July of 1918
Resting place of Past Post Commander Charles G. Irving at Carolina Biblical Gardens In Raleigh N.C
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