America Honors Her War Heroes Part 13

Description

This film documents the dedication of World War I memorials in Europe. Dedications in France include: the Meuse-Argonne Memorial, Montfaucon; St. Mihiel Memorial, Montsec; Memorial on Blanc Mont Ridge, Champagne region; Aisne-Marne Memorial, Chateau-Thierry; memorial, Cantigny; Brest Naval Memorial, Brest; memorial fountain, Tours; and memorial, Bellicourt. Other dedications include: memorial, Audenarde, Belgium; Vierstraat Monument, Ypres, Belgium; Naval Memorial, Gibraltar; a chapel in Brookwood American Cemetery, Brookwood, England; and a chapel in Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waereghem, Belgium. The film begins with a map marked with memorial sites. Then, General J. B. P. Clayton Hill is shown as he laid a wreath on a monument at Verdun, France. Speeches were given by General John J. Pershing, Ambassador William Bullitt, American Legion Commander Harry Colmery, Marshal Philippe Pétain and President Albert Lebrun at Montfaucon; Congressman Lister Hill, French Senator Gaston Roge, and General Bernard Kearney at Montsec; Colmery and French General Flavigny at Sommepy; French General Vincensini, the Honorable Charles A. Eaton, and American Battle Monuments Commission member Mrs. Henry Fenimore Baker at Tours; Colmery, Belgian General Denis, Senator F. Ryan Duffy, and Premier Paul van Zeeland speak at Waereghem; Ambassadors Hugh Gibson and Josephus Daniels, Belgian General Vertommen at Audenarde; General Hill, Senator Ernest Gibson, and General Kearney at Kemmel, Belgium; General Pershing, Congressman Hill, French General Lheritier and the Honorable J. Walter Lambeth at Bellicourt; Josephus Daniels, General D. John Markey and French General Lamson at Cantigny; Josephus Daniels, French Admiral Devin, Judge Finis J. Garrett, and Senator Richard Russell at Brest; Admiral A. P. Fairchild and Governor General Sir Charles Harrington at Gibraltar; Ambassador Robert Bingham, Congressman Hill and First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper at Brookwood; General Pershing, American Legion Commander Daniel Doherty, General James Harbord and Charles Gates Dawes at Chateau-Thierry. A message from President Franklin Roosevelt was also broadcast to the guests at Montfaucon. The film also shows sailors as they debarked from the cruiser Raleigh at Gibraltar.

Collection

Records of the American Battle Monuments Commission

Series

Moving Images Relating to American War Cemeteries and Memorials