This is aRARE long out-of-print book that comesin 8 ½ x 11 staple bound reprint of an otherwise almost impossible to book.
Earned TWOFrench Fourregere’s unit citations.
It covers theentire history of the 1st Engineer Regiment, of the 1stInfantry Division, during World War I. Staring off with the formation of theunit, traveling across the oceans, and traveling to the front lines.
The 1stInfantry Division had five campaign bars on their World War I Victory medal,they saw a lot of combat during the war. Their first sector was in Toulfollowed by the capture of Cantigny in May 1918.
The next epicbattle was at Soissons July, followed by the assault on the St. Mihiel, andlastly with the terrible battles of the Argonne Forrest and the Meuse River.
There areloads of details and maps of these battles.
Included arerosters of all of the officers, and a listing of ALL of the decorations unit by the regiment. Plus areally nice section on the orders and unit awards of the division.
The book endswith the last 50 plus pages listing out ALL of the members of the regiment withannotations, where appropriate, of KIA, WIA, awards, gassed, severely WIA,Missing, and Shell Shock.
This staplebound book has 181 pages in it.
