Monument Details

1st Infantry Division Cantigny Stele

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Details:

North of D26, in the center of a road triangle. (The monument was previously located east of Cantigny on D26; it was moved in 2018 to the present location) Monument

A square light pillar, on top of which is a stone eagle (sculpted by Jo Davidson) and on its sides are four bronze tablets with the names of all 1st Infantry Division soldiers killed or wounded during this battle.

The 1st Infantry Division Association contracted and maintains Five World War I and Five World War II all located in Europe. The Cantigny monument commemorates the casualties in the “first American attack of World War I” where 199 First Division soldiers were killed and another 867 wounded.

Monument Text:

The monument includes of the names 199 First Division soldiers killed and 867 wounded during the battle.

Commemorates:

People:

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Thomas Harold Whitcomb Abbott

Ranzie W. Adams

George F. Aitkens

Charles F. W. Albrecht

Melvin V. Albright

Ralph Tinius Amundson

Christian S. Anderson

James Alpheus Anderson

Robert Banks Anderson

Henry F. Anglin

Jay Le R. Antes

James Porter Arnold

Samuel Dock Ashey

Clemmie Atkinson

Meinrad Aufdermauer

George W. Austin

Thomas Leroy Bailey

William L. Bainbridge

Frank Austin Baker

Orville F. Ballard

Units:

18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

1st Ammunition Trains, 1st Infantry Division

1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division

1st Engineer Combat Battalion, 1st Infantry Division

1st Infantry Division

1st Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Infantry Division

1st Sanitary Trains, 1st Infantry Division

26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

2nd Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Infantry Division

5th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

6th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

7th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Division

United States Army

Wars:

WWI

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