Montgomery in Montgomery County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
Militaires Francais Decedes Aux Etats-Unis Au Cours de la Guerre 1939-1945
[French soldiers who died in the United States during the war 1939-1945]
Inscription.
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, World II.
Location. 32° 23.118′ N, 86° 17.466′ W. Memorial is in Montgomery, Alabama, in Montgomery County. It can be reached from Upper Wetumpka Road west of Vonora Road, on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal
address: 1309 Upper Wetumpka Rd, Montgomery AL 36107, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in Alabama’s Tri-Counties River Region. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, and in the Black Belt. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Royal Air Force Burial Ground (within shouting distance of this marker); Burial Site of Royal Air Force Trainee Pilots (within shouting distance of this marker); Governor William Calvin Oates / Colonel W. C. Oates, CSA at Gettysburg (approx. 0.2 miles away); William C. Oates (approx. 0.2 miles away); Civil War Medicine / Montgomery's Confederate Hospitals (approx. 0.3 miles away); Old Oakwood Cemetery (approx. 0.4 miles away); First Baptist Church (approx. half a mile away); Alabama War Veterans Monument (approx. half a mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Montgomery.
Another marker is no longer nearby. Brigadier General Birkett Davenport Fry, CSA / Colonel B.D. Fry at Battle of Gettysburg (was approx. 0.3 miles away but has been confirmed missing).
Credits. This page was last revised on July 28, 2025. It was originally submitted on September 19, 2022, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. This page has been viewed 431 times since then and 63 times this year. Last updated on July 27, 2025, by Thierry Chaunu of New York, New York. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on September 29, 2022, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.

