Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 April 2012
HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS COMPANY
FIRST ARMY
- Organized 10 August 1918 in the Regular Army in France as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, First Army
- (Headquarters Troop reorganized and redesignated in September 1918 as Troop A, Headquarters Battalion, First Army; redesignated 1 March 1919 as Headquarters Troop, First Army)
- Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, First Army, demobilized 20 April 1919 in France
- Reconstituted 27 June 1944 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, First Army; concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, First Army (active)(see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, First Army
- Redesignated 1 January 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, First United States Army
- (Headquarters Company inactivated 5 June 1970 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland)
- Reorganized and redesignated 3 October 2006 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, First Army (Headquarters Company remained inactive) ANNEX
- Constituted 15 August 1927 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Seventh Army
- Redesignated 13 October 1927 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, First Army
- Headquarters activated 1 October 1933 at Governors Island, New York; Headquarters Company activated 18 November 1940 at Governors Island, New York
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War I
- St. Mihiel
- Meuse-Argonne
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- Normandy (with arrowhead)
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
DECORATIONS
- Army Superior Unit Award, streamer embroidered 2001-2004
- Army Superior Unit Award, streamer embroidered 2004-2008
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History