23rd Engineer Regiment Road Marker -WW1
Details:
In an open area adjacent to the Varennes Museum on the side close to the Pennsylvania Monument Marker
The remnants of a road marker that the 23rd Engineer Regiment placed in Varennes in early 1919. The memorial is listed in The American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) 1927 Book: "American Armies and Battlefields in Europe". The memorial is listed on page 526 as a "Marker about 5 feet high placed by the soldiers of the 23rd Engineer Regiment in Varennes just after the Armistice".
Monument Text:
The marker is in disrepair and is now just remnants of what was placed in 1918.
The Inscription Read (See B&W Picture):
23rd
(on an Engineer Castle)
1918/9
T 7
USA
All that remains is:
T7
USA
