Monument Details

1st Infantry Division Cantigny Stele

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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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Willie B. Sanders

S. M. Santernos

Milton Watson Scarborough

Oscar Frederick Louis Schaefer

Charles H. Schick

George M. Schlicht

Frank J. Schmidt

William Schofield

Finis E. Schooling

William Warren "Willie" Schoville

John A. Schramkowski

Joseph Schubert

Walter J. Schutzman

Gottfred, Jr. Schwemmer

Robert F. Scott

Aroille G. Scroggins

Edgar W. Sellers

Abraham James Shellenbarger

Martin Lynn Shelton

Rufus Alexander Shelton

Charles Turner Shepard

George S. Sheppard

Jethro Shoemaker

Lemuel Franklin Shortridge

Guy Warren Showers

Finley M. Shuler

Henry Sierzycki

Israel Silverman

Charles R. Simmons

Abraham D. Simons

Clyde A. Simpson

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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