Talk:15th Engineer Battalion (United States)/@comment-100.36.23.85-20160418015546

I would be interested in a research citation confirming my knowledge that because the 15th Engineer Battalion was the first unit of the American Expeditionary Forces to arrive in England in WWI (and the first organized foreign armed to land there since William the Conqueror), its members were awarded a badge featuring a lion and the words "First to England" (quite unlike the pictured coat of arms). My father enlisted in the unit at Oakmont PA in 1916 and served with it throughout the war. His captain, Brehon B. Somerville, as a lieutenant general in WWII headed the Army Services of Supply.

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