Memorial Day for the American Dead
of W.W. I

A magazine article that appeared in an American veteran’s magazine concerning the pageantry that would mark the Memorial Day of 1920 at each of the primary A.E.F. cemeteries in France.

“More than 127,000 American soldiers, sailors and Marines gave up their lives during the war…Total battle deaths in the A.E.F. killed in action and died of wounds were 50,329 including casualties in the Siberian force. Deaths from disease including the A.E.F. and men in the home cantonments, were 58,837…No American field of honor will be without it’s Memorial Day ceremony, no American grave without its flag and its flowers…”

An interesting article that was written at a time it was believed that the A.E.F. cemeteries were going to be closed and the interred repatriated. References are made to Suresnes Cemetery in Paris.