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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Dennis A. Sullivan

Emmet D. Sullivan

Richard H. Sutherlin

Melville O. Talley

William Francies Forbes Taylor

William H. Taylor

Marvin D. Teague

Charles D. Thayer

Morris Henry Thomas

Marion D. Thompson

Truman Elmore Tichnell

Arthur H. B. Tiedeman

John R. Tippett

Herbert A. Tobey

Domenico Togniotti

Kenneth R. Toothman

James F. Toutloff

Albert Tragwski

Oakley Orval Traynor

Lawrence J. Trego

Otto M. Turkofski

Fred Eugene Turner

Victor J. Tuttle

Henry Urbanowski

Thomas George Shea Uren

Francis P. Vallely

James R. Van Alstin

Jos Van DePutte

William Miller Van Fossen

Virgil Verton Varnado

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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