Bathelémont-lès-Bauzemont
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Bathelémont-lès-Bauzemont is a commune
in the Meurthe-et-Moselle
department in north-eastern France
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Near Bathelémont is a memorial to the first three U.S. soldiers killed in action in France in World War I
. The three men, James Gresham, Thomas Enright, and Merle Hay, of the 16th Infantry, 1st Division, fell on November 3, 1917.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle is a department in the Lorraine region of France, named after the Meurthe and Moselle rivers.- History :Meurthe-et-Moselle was created in 1871 at the end of the Franco-Prussian War from the parts of the former departments of Moselle and Meurthe which remained French...
department in north-eastern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Near Bathelémont is a memorial to the first three U.S. soldiers killed in action in France in World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
. The three men, James Gresham, Thomas Enright, and Merle Hay, of the 16th Infantry, 1st Division, fell on November 3, 1917.