Pour honorer et ne pas oublier les Américains morts pour leur pays et notre liberté , un jour de commémoration unique pour tous les conflits, le Mémorial Day.
En France ce jour est le dernier dimanche de mai , le lieu, les cimetières militaire américains.
BELLEAU commune de l'aisne près de CHATEAU THIERRY est aux Marines de qu'est Camerone à la Légion
http://www.picardie1418.com/fr/decouvrir/cimetiere-militaire-americain-de-belleau.phpTous les ans pour le mémorial day les Marines viennent d'Angleterre , d'Allemagne ou de Washington
Le chef d'état major des Marines
et le Général TORRETE chef d'état major des Armées
L'origine de la LégendeL'un des emblèmes des Marines est le bulldog voici son origine, cette fontaine dans une ferme à BELLEAU .
Les doughboy était envoyés au repos dans cette ferme, ils y remplissaient leur gourdes, cette eau avait pour eux des vertus revigorantes et empèchait de vieillir.
BERTHENAY 02 est en limite de département avec la MARNE 51



This is a First World War issue, but I am hoping someone could come up with the answer for me.
I have been looking into one of my ancestors who was killed at the beginning of the Great War during the Battle of the Marne, He was Pte Mark Lockwood of the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards, The 3CG where in Action around the 9th of September 1914 at a place called Rebais, the Battalion went down into a valley to cross a small River (Petit Morin) and to head up a steep hill towards La Tretoire then on to the village of Boitron their reason was to push a german cavalry unit out of the area, During the fight my Great-Uncle was wounded.
He was taken to a Field Hospital which was set up at the Railway Sidings in Coulommiers but later died on that day, according to later reports his body was laid to rest at the corner of a field and a "Small Cross Erected”
He is know buried in a small cemetery at Boitron with one other Coldstreamer one Worcester and 2 unknown soldiers.
What I do not understand is why he was taken all the way back there to be buried and why there should be so few soldiers buried there when a lot of them died during the action.
http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/evacuation-hospital-no-7-at-chateau-montanglaust-8131918/