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France Pantheon Commemorative Wall Remembering Fallen Writers (including Americans) WW1

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Details:

Inside the Panthéon spreading across a wall.

Monument

A large pale-stone wall memorial with carved inscriptions honoring several Americans who volunteered for France and were among the 560 writers killed in battle during World War I, whose names are commemorated on this wall.

 

Those volunteers included:

HENRY FARNSWORTH  - 1890 - 28 September 1915 KIA Bois Sabot en Champagne

VICTOR-EMMANUEL CHAPMAN  - 1890 - 23 June 1916 KIA Verdun

RUSSELL KELLY  - 1893 - le 16 June 1915 KIA  Souchez en Artois

ALAIN SEEGER  - 1888 - 4 July 1916  KIA Belloy (Somme)

KIFFIN YATES ROCKWELL  - 1892 - 25 September 1916

NORMAN PRINCE  - 1887 - 15 October 1916

JAMES-ROGER MC CONNELL  - 1887 - 19 March 1917 KIA  Ham

EDMOND GENET  - 1896 - 16 April 1917 près de Ham

 PAUL PAVELKA  - 1892 - 12 November 1917 KIA Salonique

GERVAIS-RAOUL LUFBERY  - 1885 - 19 May 1918 KIA Toul

KENNETH WEEKS  - 1889 - 17 June 1915 KIA Arras en Artois

 

Source of Information: Greatwar Forum .org

Source of photo: fr.wikipedia.org

 

Monument Text:

 

AVX ECRIVAINS

MORTS POVR LA FRANCE

MCMXIV MCMXVIII

MORTS

AV CHAMP DHONNEVR

(listed amoung the French writers)

V. CHAPMAN

H. FARNSWORTH 

E. GENET

R. KELLY

J. KILMER

G. LUFBERY

J. MC CONNELL

P. PAVELKA

N. PRINCE

A. SEEGER

K. ROCKWELL

K. WEEKS

 

English translation:

 

TO THE WRITERS

WHO DIED FOR FRANCE

1914 1918 

DIED

ON THE FIELD OF HONOR

(Listed amoung the 560 French Writers)

V. CHAPMAN

H. FARNSWORTH 

E. GENET

R. KELLY

J. KILMER

G. LUFBERY

J. MC CONNELL

P. PAVELKA

N. PRINCE

A. SEEGER

K. ROCKWELL

K. WEEKS

Commemorates:

People:

Victor Emmanuel Chapman

Henry Weston Farnsworth

Edmond Charles Clinton Genet

Russell Kelly

Joyce Alfred Kilmer

Raoul Gervais Lufbery

James Rogers McConnell

Paul Jr. Pavelka

Norman Prince

Kiffin Yates Rockwell

Alan Seeger

Kenneth Weeks

Units:

165th Infantry Regiment, 42nd Division

42nd (Rainbow) Division

94th Aero Squadron 1st Pursuit Group

American Field Service

American Volunteer Group

French Army

French Foreign Legion

Lafayette Escadrille

Lafayette Flying Corps

Wars:

WWI

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