Summerall, commander of the 1st Division, inspecting doughboys of the 16th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, in France, September 7, 1918. Pershing, Commander'in-Chief of the AEF, and Major General Charles P. Stanton of the division's 16th Infantry Regiment stepped forward and declared, "Lafayette, nous sommes ici! " Two days later, on 6 July, Headquarters, First Expeditionary Division was redesignated as Headquarters, First Division, American Expeditionary Forces.
An apocryphal story holds that at Lafayette's tomb, to the delight of the attending Parisians, Captain Charles E. On 4 July, the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry, paraded through the streets of Paris to bolster the sagging French spirits. Red Cross nurses serving bread and coffee to doughboys of the 16th Infantry, 1st Division, upon their arrival in Paris, July 4, 1917. Upon arrival in France, the division, less its artillery, was assembled in the First (Gondrecourt) training area, and the artillery was at Le Valdahon. After a brief stay in rest camps, the troops in England proceeded to France, landing at Le Havre. Throughout the remainder of the year, the rest of the division followed, landing at St. The first units sailed from New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey, on 14 June 1917. Coe, who later served as Chief of Coast Artillery, was the division's first chief of staff. Patton, who served as the first headquarters commandant for the American Expeditionary Forces, oversaw much of the arrangements for the movement of the 1st Division to France, and their organization in-country. The total authorized strength of this TO&E was 18,919 officers and enlisted men. The original table of organization and equipment (TO&E) included two organic infantry brigades of two infantry regiments each, one engineer battalion one signal battalion one trench mortar battery one field artillery brigade of three field artillery regiments one air squadron and a full division train. Sibert, from Army units then in service on the Mexico–United States border and at various Army posts throughout the United States. Subdued shoulder sleeve insignia, worn on ACUĪ few weeks after the American entry into World War I, the First Expeditionary Division, later designated the 1st Infantry Division, was constituted on, in the Regular Army, and was organized on 8 June 1917, at Fort Jay, on Governors Island in New York harbor under the command of Brigadier General William L. Duty First!Ĭommand Sergeant Major Christopher L.
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