American Volunteer Monument
Details:
Inside the Thomas Jefferson Square. About 50 m south of the Washington and Lafayette Monument. Monument This statue was dedicated by the President of the French Council of State Raymond Poincare on July 4 1923 to the Americans who had volunteered to fight in World War I. It features a bronze statue on a plinth and was inspired by the soldier and poet Alan Seeger. Inscribed on the back of the plinth is Seeger's name along the 23 others from the French Foreign Legion. Two excerpts from Seeger's Ode to Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen For France are also found on both sides of the statue.
Monument Text:
VIVE FRANCE TOUJOURS
LEGION ENTRAGERE
AGOSTINE GUY
BEMING JOHN
CLAIR FRANK
CAP DE VIELLE FRERDINAND
CHARTON JOHN
DIMITRI JAMES PAUL*
FARNSWORTH HENRY
FIK JOHN EARLE **
HALL HARMAN
HOFFECKER CHARLES
JANZ JACK
KELLY RUSSELL
MICHAUD WILFRED
MEYER GEORGE
NOCK IVAN FINNEY
PHELIZOT RENE
PARINGFIELD WILLIAM
STONE EDMUND MANDEL
SEEGER ALAN
SCANLAN LAWRENCE
WEEKS KENNETH
WHITMORE FRANK
WHEELER DAVID EVERETT
DINSMORE ELY
ESCADRILLE LAFAYETTE
ASH ALAN
NEWTON
BARCLAY NORMAN
BAUGHAM HENRY
BAYNE ALEXANDER
BAYLIES FRANK
BENNEY PHILIPS
BIDDLE JULIAN CORNELL
BLUETHENTHAL ARTHUR
BOOTH VERNON
CAMPELL COURTNEY
CHAPNAN CHARLES
CHADWICK OLIVIER
CHAPNAW VICTOR
CHAMBERLAND
CLAPP ROGER
DAVIS PHILIP
DREW SIDNEY
DOWD DENNIS
DOWD MEREDITH
EDGAR STUART E
FOWLER ERIC ANDERSON
GENET EDMOND CHARLES CLINTON
GRIEB NORMAN
GUNDELACH ANDRE
HANFORD ROBERT
ELY DINSMORE
AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE
EMMERSON KEY BOND JR.
KURTZ PAUL BORDA
MACKENZIE GORDON KENNETH
ROGERS RANDOLF
GRAHAM JOHN RALSTON
BURR CARLETON
ROBERTSON MALCOM TROOP
HOUSTON HENRY HOWARD
HOLLISTER GEORGE MERRICK
FERGUSON DANSWORTH BROOKS
FISKE CHARLES HENRY
BUCKLER LEON HAMLIN
WESCOTT JOHN HOWELL JR.
CULBERTSON TINGLE WOODS
FORBUSH FERDERIC MOORE
POTTER WILLIAM CLARKSON
BEANE JAMES DUDLEY
ESCADRILLE LAFAYETTE
HOBBS
HOSKIER DONALD W.
JOHNSON HARRY
DE KRUIFF THEODORE
LEE SCHUYLER
LEHR MANDERSON
LOUGHRAN EDWARD
LUFBERRY RAOUL
MAC MONAGLE DOUGLAS
MC CONNEL JAMES
COLLINS PHELPS
MEEKER WILLIAM M
NICHOLS ALAN HAMMOND
OVINGTON CARTER LANDRAM
PALMER HENRY BREWSTER
PAVELKA PAUL
PELTON ALFRED DIGBY
PETERSON DAVID MC KELVEY
PUTNAM DAVID
PRINCE NORMAN
ROCKWELL KIFFIN YATES
STARRETT FRANK E.
STONE DONALD E.
SPENCER DUMARESO
TAILER WILLIAM H
TAYLOR ELMER B
MILLER WALTER
HOBBS WARREN
DINSMORE ELY
TERRES HUGH
TRINKARD CHARLES
TUCKER DUDLEY
TYSON STEPHEN
WALCOTT BENJAMIN
WOOLWARD HENRY HOUSTON
WINTER WALLACE
WLISON JOSEPH VOLNEY
MCKERNES WILLIAM
AMERICAN
FIELD SERVICE
BALBIANI ROGER MARIE-LOUIS
BIGELOW DONALD
CRAIG HARRY WORTHINGTON
CRAIG HARMON BUSHNEL
CLARK COLEMAN TILLSTON
DU BOUCHET CHARLES VIVIAN
HALL RICHARD MELVILLE
KELLEY EDWARD JOSEPH
LINES HOWARD CURGHARD
RHINELANDER PHILIP NEWBOLD
SORTWELL EDWARD CARTER
SUCKLEY HENRY ECLINTON MONGOMERY
WOODWARTH BENJAMIN RUSSEL
TABER ARTHUR RICHMOND
TINKHAM EDWARD LOUIS
ILLICH JERRY
Notes:
* Actual name is Demetre, James Paul
** Fike, John Earl. Served under the name John Smith
Commemorates:
People:
Phillip Phillips 'Phil' Benney
Charles Wesley Jr. "Carl" Chapman
James Paul 'Jimmie Paul' Demetre
John Earl (aka John Smith) Fike
Andre August Hendrick Gundelach
Units:
163rd Aero Squardron
20th Aero Squadron
306th Infantry Regiment 77th Division
94th Aero Squadron 1st Pursuit Group
95th Aero Squadron 1st Pursuit Group
American Field Service
Attached French Air Service
French Foreign Legion
Lafayette Escadrille
U.S. Navy Air Service
Wars:
WWI
WWII
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