Ramón Eduardo Ruiz

The geometry of the relationship between Francisco R. Serrano and Ivor Thord-Gray is interesting, touching on birth and death and marked throughout by distrust. They first met December 1913 in Hermosillo, when Colonel Serrano, serving as Obregón’s Chief of Staff, received the “Gringo” seeking a commission in the Revolutionary Army.

Thord-Gray describes Serrano as  “courteous enough, but gave me the impression that Americans were not particularly wanted, and I soon found him a gringo hater.”

Thord-Gray got around Serrano, hit it off with Obregón, and received his commission from Carranza, not in the Cavalry as requested, but as First Captain of artillery and battery commander.