{"id":296,"date":"2012-04-18T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/?p=296"},"modified":"2016-05-20T09:04:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:04:22","slug":"romagne-sous-montfaucon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/2012\/04\/romagne-sous-montfaucon\/","title":{"rendered":"Romagne-sous-Montfaucon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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C’est \u00e0 Romagne-sous-Montfaucon que se trouve le plus grand cimeti\u00e8re am\u00e9ricain en Europe.\u00a0 Plus de 14000 soldats y reposent, la plupart ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9s durant l’offensive de l’Argonne entre septembre et novembre 1918.<\/p>\n

Romagne-sous-Monfaucon, the largest american cemetery in Europe ; more than 14000 soldiers are buried here. Most of them died during the Meuse Argonne offensive who took place from september to november 1918.<\/p>\n

They shall not be forgotten<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Sur le fronton de la chapelle on peut lire\/ Above the chapel entrance we can read :<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Dedicated to the memory of those who died for their country – In sacred sleep they rest\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sous les arcades sont inscrits les noms des disparus<\/p>\n

The names of the missing are written on the walls in the walkway.<\/p>\n

Parmi eux ceux-ci, les soldats tu\u00e9s en Russie et dont le lieu de s\u00e9pulture est inconnu<\/p>\n

Among them those who died in Northen Russia and have no know graves.<\/p>\n

Ce sont\/Those are :<\/p>\n

ASIRE Myron J.<\/strong><\/em> – Private 1st CL – 310 th Engrs – 85 th Division – oct 14 1918 – Michigan<\/p>\n

BABINGER William E.<\/strong><\/em> – Corporal – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – sept 29 1918 – Michigan<\/p>\n

BALLARD Clifford B.<\/strong><\/em> – 2nd Lieutenant – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – feb 7 1919 – Michigan<\/p>\n

BLOOM Helmer<\/em> <\/strong>– Sergeant 1st CL – 310th Engrs – 85th Division – oct 8 1918 – Michigan<\/p>\n

CARTER James<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – sept 29 1918 – Michigan<\/p>\n

CLARK Joshua A.<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – feb 4 1918 – Michigan<\/p>\n

DARGAN Arthur<\/strong> <\/em>– Private – 310th Engrs – 85th Division – oct 8 1918 – New York<\/p>\n

FRANK Arthur A<\/strong> <\/em>– Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – sept 29 1918 – Michigan<\/p>\n

FRUCCE John<\/strong> <\/em>– Private – 339th Infantery – 85 h Division – mar 22 1919 – Michigan<\/p>\n

KEEFE Thomas H<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – feb 4 1919 – Illinois<\/p>\n

KIEFFER Simon P.<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – sept 29 1918 Michigan<\/p>\n

KISSICK Thurman L.<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – nov 29 1918 – Kentucky<\/p>\n

KROLL John Jr.<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – sept 10 1918 – Michigan<\/p>\n

LYTTLE Alfred E.<\/em> <\/strong>– Corporal – 310th Engrs – 85th Division – oct 30 1918 – Michigan<\/p>\n

MOORE Albert E.<\/strong><\/em> – Corporal – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – mar 7 1919 – Michigan<\/p>\n

PETERSON August B.<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – apr 12 1919 – Michigan<\/p>\n

RAMOTOWSKE Josef<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – mar 26 1919 – Michigan<\/p>\n

SCHROEDER Herbert A.<\/strong><\/em> – Corporal – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – sept 10 1918 – Michigan<\/p>\n

SCOTT Perry C.<\/strong><\/em> – Corporal – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – sept 29 1918 – Michigan<\/p>\n

SWEET Earl D.<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – mar 9 1919 – Michigan<\/p>\n

TAYLOR Otto Vernon<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – oct 16 1918 – Indiana<\/p>\n

VAN DEVENTER Georges E.<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – sept 11 1918 – Idaho<\/p>\n

WESTERHOF John T.<\/strong><\/em> – Private – 339th Infantery – 85th Division – sept 11 1918 – Michigan<\/p>\n

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Le m\u00e9morial \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur de la chapelle\/Memorial chapel interior<\/p>\n

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3 braves, parmi d’autres, qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cor\u00e9s de la plus haute distinction militaire am\u00e9ricaine : la m\u00e9daille d’honneur.<\/div>\n

3 braves, among others, who recevied the Medal of Honor<\/p>\n

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This poor guy is one of those who were killed 1 day before the end of the war !<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C’est \u00e0 Romagne-sous-Montfaucon que se trouve le plus grand cimeti\u00e8re am\u00e9ricain en Europe.\u00a0 Plus de 14000 soldats y reposent, la plupart ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9s durant l’offensive de l’Argonne entre septembre et novembre 1918. Romagne-sous-Monfaucon, the largest american cemetery in Europe … Lire la suite →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-necropo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}