of engineer troops
Camp
New Jersey
First
In late November the 1 lth Engineers
abandoned its railway work and
After the United States declared
helped the British construct new
war on Germany on April 6, 1917,
defensivepositions,stoppinga
theBritishandFrenchgovernments
German effort to regain territory
asked this country to give top priority
near Cambrai.
to deploying American engineers to
France. By the end of August, nine
newly organized engineer railway
regiments and the combat engineer
regiment of the 1st Division had
crossed the Atlantic. Several of the
railway regiments were assigned to
British or French military formations
pending the arrival of more American
combat troops in the summer and
autumn of 1918.
First Casualties
Sergeant Matthew Calderwood
and Private William Branigan,
11th Engineers, became the war's
first, front-line U.S. Army casualties.
They were wounded by German
artillery fire on September 1917,
while serving with the British
Third Army near the village of
Buglers of Company C, 5th Engineers,
GouzeaucourtinnorthernFrance.
7th
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