MONUMENT DE BATHELEMONT

During the First World War, the American intervention started in this sector of Lunévillois and the first three American soldiers who died in France died near the commune of Bathelémont A first commemorative monument, designed by Louis Majorelle, stood in front of the old destroyed church of Bathelémont in November 1918. Symbolically inaugurated on November 3, 1918 in the Nancy City Hall, because the proximity of the front did not allow a solemn inauguration on the spot, the monument was destroyed during the Second World War in October 1940 A new stele was built and inaugurated on May 9, 1955. Then, this monument was moved on August 19, 1977 near the communal cemetery, where it is still located. The Americans J.B. Gesham, T.F. Enright and M.D. Hay did not die on the territory of Bathelemont and they were never buried under the monument; but this commemorative stele, in honor of these first American soldiers killed, has had an eventful existence for such a monument.