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| Keywords: outdoor Lot-8296-13: American Expeditionary Forces, WWI. Inner Entrance of Cemetery No.18. This cemetery which is in the Bois des Clerembauts is close to Le Thiolet and Bouresches. It was established the 5th of June, by the 23rd Infantry and was taken over from them by the French in September. The fences, decorations around the graves, and the walks were built by German Prisoner of War labor, under the direction of the French. Graves Registration Unit 303 received the cemetery from the French the third week of October, set up the regulation O.D. crosses and have cared for it ever since. Fifty-six men are buried here, mostly from the 23rd Infantry, Bois de Clerembauts, December 3, 1918. U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/12/02). Lot-8296-13: American Expeditionary Forces, WWI. Inner Entrance of Cemetery No.18. This cemetery which is in the Bois des Clerembauts is close to Le Thiolet and Bouresches. It was established the 5th of June, by the 23rd Infantry and was taken over from them by the French in September. The fences, decorations around the graves, and the walks were built by German Prisoner of War labor, under the direction of the French. Graves Registration Unit 303 received the cemetery from the French the third week of October, set up the regulation O.D. crosses and have cared for it ever since. Fifty-six men are buried here, mostly from the 23rd Infantry, Bois de Clerembauts, December 3, 1918. U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/12/02). | ||||
