BATTLE OF CANTIGNY

BATTLE OF CANTIGNY

Highlights

U.S. soldiers killed in the Battle of Cantigny, and other U.S. personnel killed in battle or who died from wounds or disease during WWI, and a few from WWII, are buried at the Suresnes Cemetery and Memorial.

An inscription on the marble base of the monument, erected in honor of the 1st Army Division’s 28th Regiment, which led the attack that drove the Germans from Cantigny, says some 900 men were killed and wounded in the battle.

The Suresnes Cemetery, established in 1917 on 71‚Ñ2 acres on the outskirts of Paris, contains the graves of 1,541 U.S. military personnel from WWI and 24 graves of unidentified U.S. soldiers, sailors or airmen from WWII.

Most of the WWI dead buried in Suresnes Cemetery died of wounds or sickness in hospitals in Paris and other places. Many were victims of the influenza epidemic of 1918-19.

Sources: Battle of Cantigny monument, Suresnes Cemetery and Memorial Web site