Sgt Patrick Walsh, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry, #BigRedOne by Joseph Cummings Chase, 1919, #NMAH. Sgt Walsh won the Distinguished Servive Cross during a German trench raid on 1 March 1918. This portrait was one of many the artist created of #WorldWarI #AEF heroes. #fww #fwwhist #1stID

Pvt Fred Carney Co G, 2/26 Infantry #BigRedOne by Joseph Cummings, 1919, #NMAH. Pvt Carney was cited with the Croix de Guerre for bravery in action during the Meuse-Argonne offensive in the Autumn of 1918. #combatart #WorldWarI #AEF #1stID #fww #WWI #WW1 #AEF #doughboy #BlueSpaders