Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
1st Infantry Division Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 24 September 1996
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
1st Infantry Division Artillery Lineage
Constituted 24 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, and assigned to the 1st Expeditionary Division
Partially organized in June 1917 at Washington, D.C.; organization completed in August 1917 in France
Disbanded 16 October 1939 at Fort Hoyle, Maryland
Reconstituted 10 September 1940 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Division Artillery
Activated 1 October 1940 at Madison Barracks, New York
Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Infantry Division Artillery
Inactivated 15 November 1995 at Fort Riley, Kansas
Activated 16 February 1996 in Germany
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
1st Infantry Division Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Montdidier-Noyon; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1917; Lorraine 1918; Picardy 1918
World War II: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Normandy (with arrowhead); Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Vietnam: Defense; Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970
Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Decorations
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for KASSERINE
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY
French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
Belgian Fourragere 1940
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at MONS
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at EUPEN-MALMEDY
Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1968
Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class for VIETNAM 1965-1970