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First Three Fallen Monument (WW1)

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Details:

Temporarily in the courtyard in front of the town hall.  To be moved to the actual site where the soldiers fell.  Monument


A stone stele made of the local reddish sandstone (Greys des Vosges) on which is mounted a black granite plaque with gold leaf inscription in French.  Dedicated on 4 November 2017.

Monument Text:

1917                         2017

 

LA LORRAINE AUX ETATS UNIS

 

PREMIERE DIVISION                            D'INFANTERIE US

 

16e RI Compagnie F

 

C'EST ICI

QUE SONT TOMBES LE 3 NOVEMBRE 1917

LES TROIS PREMIERES SOLDATS

DU CORPS EXPEDITIONNAIRE AMERICAIN

 

JAMES BETHEL GRESHAM

d'EVANSVILLE INDIANA

Merle David HAY

de Glidden IOWA

Thomas Francis ENRIGHT

de PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIE

 

 

English translation:

 

From Lorraine to the United States

First Infantry Divison

16th Infantry Regiment Company F

The first three soldiers of the Allied Expeditionary Force fell here on 3 November 1917

James Bethel Gresham of Evansville Indiana

Merle David Hay of Glidden Iowa

Thomas Francis Enright of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Commemorates:

People:

Thomas Francis Enright

James Bethel Gresham

Merle David Hay

Units:

16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

1st Infantry Division

American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

United States Army

Wars:

WWI

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