About Souilly Marker-First Army Headquarters

Overview

On the outside of the town hall of Souilly, France, is a bronze tablet identifying the building as the headquarters of the American First Army towards the end of World War I.

Inscribed in French and English is the following:

Headquarters of the American First Army
occupied this building from September 21, 1918
to the end of hostilities, and from here
conducted the Meuse-Argonne Offensive,
one of the greatest operations of the war.