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 American Volunteer Monument - Place des Etats-Unis - Paris, France
N 48° 52.065 E 002° 17.700
31U E 448298 N 5412993
This monument to the American Volunteers who fought with France in World War I is erected at the east end of Place des Etats-Unis in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Waymark Code: WMGE1Z
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 02/20/2013
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Dedicated on 4 July 1923 by the President of the French Council of State, Raymond Poincaré to the Americans who had volunteered to fight in World War I in the service of France. The monument had been financed through a public subscription. Boucher had used a photograph of the soldier and poet, Alan Seeger, as his inspiration, and Seeger’s name can be found, among those of twenty-three others who had fallen in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion, on the back of the plinth. Also, on either side of the base of the statue, are two excerpts from Seeger’s “Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France, a poem written shortly before his death on 4 July 1916. Seeger intended that his words should be read in Paris on 30 May of that year, at an observance of the American holiday, Decoration Day (later known as Memorial Day). ( visit link) The Monument has five rows of names of Americans who fought with France in World War I; either in the French Foreign Legion, the Lafayette Squadron, or the American Field Service. The monument reads: AUX VOLONTAIRES AMERICAINS MORTS POUR LA FRANCE VIVE FRANCE TOUJOURS LEGION ETRANGERE [FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION] AGOSTINI, Guy DEMING, John CLAIR, Frank CAP de VIELLE, Ferdinand CHARTON, John DIMITRI, James Paul FARNSWORTH, Henry FIK, John Earle HALL, Harman HOFFECKER, Charles JANZ, Jack KELLY, Russell MICHAULD, Wilfred MEYER, George NOCK, Yvan Finney PHELISOT, Rene PARINGFIELD, William STONE, Edmund Mandell SEEGER, Alan SCANLAN, Lawrence WEEKS, Kenneth WHITMORE, Frank WHEELER, David Everett ELY, Dinsmore ESCADRILLE LAFAYETTE [LAFAYETTE SQUADRON] ASH, Alan Newton BARCLAY, Norman BAUGHAM, James Henry BAYNE, Alexander BAYLIES, Frank BENNEY, Philips BIDDLE, Julian Cornell BLUETHENTHAL, Arthur BOOTH, Vernon CAMPBELL, Courtney CHADWICK, Olivier CHAPMAN, Charles CHAPNAW, Victor CHAMBERLAND, Cyrus Foss CLAPP, Roger DAVIS, Philip DREW, Sidney Dowd, Dennis; DOWD, Meredith EDGAR, Stuart E. FOWLER, Eric Anderson GENET, Edmond Charles Clinton GRIEB, Norman GUNDALACH, Andre HANFORD, Robert ELY, Dinsmore HOBBS, Warren HOSKIER, Donald W. JOHNSON, Harry De KRUIJFF, Theodore LEE, Schuyler LEHR, Manderson LOUGHRAN, Edward LUFBERY, Raoul Mac MONAGLE, Douglas Mc CONNELL, James COLLINS, Phelps; MEEKER, William M. NICHOLS, Alan Hammond OVINGTON, Carter Landrum PALMER, Henry Brewster PAVELKA, Paul PELTON, Alfred Digby PETERSON, David Mc Kelvey PUTNAM, David PRINCE, Norman ROCKWELL, Kiffin Yates STARRETT, Frank E. STONE, Donald E. SPENCER, Dumaresq TALLER, William H. TAYLOR, Elmer B. MILLER, Walter HOBBS, Warren ELY, Dinsmore TERRES, Hugh TRINKARD; Charles TUCKER, Dudley TYSON, Stephen WALCOTT, Benjamin WOODWARD, Henry Houston WINTER, Wallace WILSON, Joseph Volney Mc KERNESS, William AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE EMERSON, William Key Bond Jr. KURTZ, Paul Borda MACKENZIE, Gordon Kenneth ROGERS, Randolf GRAHAM, John Ralston BURR, Carleton ROBERTSON, Malcom Troop HOUSTON, Henry Howard HOLLISTER, George Merrick FERGUSON, Danforth Brooks FISKE, Charles Henry BUCKLER, Leon Hamlin WESTCOTT, John Howell Jr. CULBERTSON, Tingle Woods FORBUSH, Frederic Moore POTTER, William Clarkson BEANE, James Dudley BALBIANI, Roger Marie Louis BIGELOW, Donald Asa CRAIG, Harry Worthington CRAIG, Harmon Bushnel CLARK, Coleman Tillston Du BOUCHET, Charles Vivian HALL, Richard Melville KELLEY, Edward Joseph LINES, Howard Burchard RHINELANDER, Philip Newbold SORTWELL, Edward Carter SUCKLEY, Henry Eclinton Mongomery WOODWORTH, Benjamin Russel WARD, Galbraant TABER, Arthur Richmond TINKHAM, Edward ILLICH, Jerry For more on the Escadrille Lafayette, see: ( visit link)
Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: 07/04/1923
Private or Public Monument?: Government
Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Paris Technical Committee and Aesthetics, paid for by public subscription
Geographic Region where the Monument is located: Europe
Website for this Monument: [Web Link]
Physical Address of Monument:
1 Place des Etats-Unis
Paris, Ile-de-France France
75016
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