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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:

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Harry E. Barrick

Ezra William Barrows

Patrick Barthelette

C. R. Basil

Gordon W. Bates

R. Bates

William M. Batjer

J. A. Baumbach

William L. Baxter

Michael Bayer

Egbert Williams Beach

Dewey G. Beam

Howard B. Bean

Ellis Randolph Beard

Franklin L. Beck

Leonard W. Beck

I. F. Beckerit

August Beckman

R. Beeson

Reuben W. Beiscaker

Joseph G. Belanger

Guy Bell

Nick Beltman

A. Benntel

Anton William Bernatz

Charley Beter

G. M. Bickford

A. C. Bilk

Ray M. Bishop

Robert E. Bitzer

Herbert E. Blair

James A. Blake

Fred M. Blakeman

V. M. Blanorec

H. H. Blenins

Adolph Block

Joel P. "Joe" Bloodough

Dominick Blotte

Edward E. Blythin

Wilmer Konrad Bodenstab

Charles E. Bohn

A. L. Bolen

Oscar N. Bolinger

C. W. Bolling

Bernard H. Bolt

Arthur E. Bond

Arthur F. Bond

M. Bonid

Alfred M. Bonsnas

R. P. Boone

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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