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A Renewed Tribute to 238 American Soldiers

A Brief History of the War Memorial in Is-sur-Tille

Built in
1923

Last restored in
October 2000

Features :

Its front side has two oval-shaped bronze plaques showing an American doughboy and a French poilu, works by Ovide Yencesse, director of the National School of Fine Arts in Dijon.

It also features two plaques on either side, one of General Pershing and the other one of Field Marshall Foch, both also the works of Ovide Yencesse.

On the back of the memorial, under the inscription "Aux morts de l'armée américaine" (To the American dead), there appears a list of 238 names of American soldiers who died in the "Camp Williams" set up in Is-sur-Tille in October 1917.

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Bygone Is: The American Camp and the XXth century