Camp D. D. Gaillard - Oakmont, Pennsylvania
N 40° 31.275 W 079° 48.848
17T E 600452 N 4486288
This marker is located at the Pennsylvania Turnpike Service Plaza, Oakmont-Plum Eastbound - Milepost 49.3, at the western corner of the plaza.
Waymark Code: WMJVGB
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 01/03/2014
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The marker stands near where Camp Gaillard once stood.
Inscription.
Camp D. D. Gaillard
15th U.S. Engineers.
World War Volunteers.
Enlisted at Pittsburgh.
Trained here May 23, 1917 to July 8, 1917.
Embarked from New York July 9, 1917.
England July 19, 1917, to July 23, 1917.
First Armed foreign troops to land
in England since Sixteenth Century.
France July 28, 1917, to April 13, 1919.
Debarked at New York, April 27, 1919.
Mustered out of service at Camp Sherman
May 15, 1929.
Pittsburgh’s Pioneer Engineers.
Erected by Allegheny County 1928
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