Alan Knight

Thord-Gray, Juan Mérigo and the Gray Automobile Affair

Thord-Gray said of Mérigo

“He became a general .. but ended up with a very unsavory reputation.”

This cryptic comment most likely refers to the infamous “gray automobile affair”, as reported here, from the U.S. Congressional record of the sixty-sixth Congress

Thord-Gray in the Battle of Tierra Blanca

The battle of Tierra-Blanca was the first engagement for Ivor Thord-Gray in the Mexican Revolution. Although it wasn’t the most important fight, the most enduring imagery of the entire revolution arguably comes out of this engagement, and Thord-Gray has a hand in it: Villa’s right hand man, the old railroader Rodolfo Fierro, straps dynamite onto the cattle catcher of a captured train, and runs the detached engine full speed into loaded Federal troop trains. Tell me you havn’t seen this image. This obligatory cinemagraphic scene was set up in reality by Thord-Gray:

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