Americans at War in Foreign Forces

                                          1914 -1945


Foreign Burial American War Dead

​​​    NEW

The first comprehensive biography of the American soldier-poet in the French Foreign Legion, killed in the Battle of the Somme, July 4, 1916.


Chris Dickon

Contact americansinforeignforces@gmail.com

Canada England France Poland Spain China

​The story of named American war dead still buried abroad since 1804. 

Links to Information
- Attestation papers, by name research, of members of Canadian Forces in WW I.
- Burials, by name research, of Commonwealth force members buried in CWGC
  cemeteries.
- Extensive short biographies of many Americans in the French Foreign Legion
   are  within the text of this book.
- Members of the Lafayette Flying Corps.
- Archives of the American Field Service for World War I, and World War II.
- Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War.
- The American Volunteer Group / Flying Tigers.
- American flyers in Commonwealth Forces, World War II are here and here. 
- American War Dead buried abroad since 1804, map of burials worldwide.


Related Books Online
John Bowe and Charles L. MacGregor, Soldiers of the Legion
Alan Seeger, Introduction by William Archer, Poems by Alan Seeger
Paul Ayres Rockwell, American Fighters in the Foreign Legion
​Albert N. Depew, Gunner Depew
Edwin Wilson Morse, The Vanguard of American Volunteers
James William Davenport Seymour, History of the American Field Service in France
​​James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff, Edgar G. Hamilton, ed., The Lafayette Flying Corps
​​Ist Lt. Joseph S. Smith, Over There and Back in Three Uniforms
​Edwin Austin Abbey, An American Soldier
​Georges Thenault, The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille
​Arthur Gerald Donahue, Tally Ho! Yankee in a Spitfire
​Kenneth C. Kan, First in the Air The Eagle Squadrons of World War II
Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond, Ronald E. White, Passport Not Required