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| Keywords: Lot 6591-10: Somme American cemetery, located about 11 miles northwest of St. Quentin, and is the burial place of over 1,800 American soldiers. Most of the men buried here were members of the 27th and 30th Divisions who lost their lives in this vicinity; of the 1st Division who lost their lives in the operations near Cantigny, and of the 33rd and 80th Divisions who fell in battle while serving with the British forces near Hamel and Albert. Shown: Bony Cemetery from chapel steps. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection-Photograph Album presented by General John J. Pershing, USA (Ret.), Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission. The photographs in the collection were taken in 1923 to show the memorials erected by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2015/10/09). Lot 6591-10: Somme American cemetery, located about 11 miles northwest of St. Quentin, and is the burial place of over 1,800 American soldiers. Most of the men buried here were members of the 27th and 30th Divisions who lost their lives in this vicinity; of the 1st Division who lost their lives in the operations near Cantigny, and of the 33rd and 80th Divisions who fell in battle while serving with the British forces near Hamel and Albert. Shown: Bony Cemetery from chapel steps. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection-Photograph Album presented by General John J. Pershing, USA (Ret.), Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission. The photographs in the collection were taken in 1923 to show the memorials erected by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2015/10/09). | ||||
