First Three Fallen Monument (WW1)
Details:
Temporarily in the courtyard in front of the town hall. To be moved to the actual site where the soldiers fell. Monument
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:
Units:
16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
1st Infantry Division
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
United States Army
Wars:
WWI
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