Capital Detail 1

3D Model

This pair of column capitals decorating an upper window opening represent the French boxcars used to transport troops, symbolized by a mule with “40 Hommes 8 Chevaux” (40 Men 8 Horses) carved across the top, and the Medical Corps, with a Greek cross and caduceus.

Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial, near the city of Château-Thierry in Northeastern France, is being documented for the American Battle Monuments Commission by a team of Historic American Landscapes Survey architects and historians.

For more information on the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery please visit: https://abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/europe/aisne-marne-american-cemetery