Grave: Plot 32, Row A, Grave 9 [XXXII. A. 9.], in the American Section.

A grave similar to the Commonwealth War Grave Commission upright Gravestone.

1^st Lieutenant James A. Pigue served in the 117^th Infantry of the 30^th “Old Hickory” Infantry Division during the First World War.  He was killed on July 18, 1918 by sniper fire while serving on the British Army Ypres Front near the East Poperinghe Line of trenches. He was the first officer killed with the 30th Infantry Division during the war.

1LT Pigue was from Tennessee and had previously served in the US Marine Corps in the Panama Canal zone in the early 1900s.  In 1916 he joined the Tennessee National Guard to serve with the border war with Mexico. 

The 117^th Infantry Regiment, 30^th Infantry Division deployed initially with the British Army in the Ypres area for training.  After he was killed, Pigue was buried at the Gwalia British Cemetery, but later his body was moved to the "American Plot” of the Lijssenthoek Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in June of 1919;  his family decided for him to remain at this location.

A cenotaph and statue remember Pigue at his home

Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.

Source: https://aomda.org

JAMES A.

PIGUE

TENNESSEE

LIEUT., 117^TH INF., U.S.A

30^TH DIV.

JULY 18, 1918

GAVE HIS LIFE

FOR LIBERTY