Chimienti Monument
Details:
At the corner of Ter Elststraat and Vandewoestijnestraat at the entrance of a private park and Chateau residence Kasteel ter Elst Marker
Remembers a US Soldier who was killed in the garden of this house during WW1. The American soldier, an Italian born immigrant, rests in the Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial.
Monument Text:
In Memory
of Michele Chimienti,
316 Engrs,
U.S.A.,
Killed in Action
Here
on 31 October 1918
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
316th Engineer Regiment
91st Division
United States Army
Wars:
WWI
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