Thirty-four soldiers and sailors from Waterbury died in the Great War for Democracy, 1917–1919, and remain forever interred where they fell in France or are honored on walls of the missing there. Their names were to be remembered by those who came after them, and their graves are cared for by the American Battle Monuments Commission. They served in the U.S. Navy and in Army infantry, tank, machine gun, engineer, and field artillery units including the 102nd Infantry, 26th Division; 307th Infantry, 77th Division; 6th Infantry, 5th Division; 345th Tank Battalion; 14th Machine Gun Battalion, 5th Division; 308th Infantry, 77th Division; 9th Infantry, 2nd Division; 39th Infantry, 4th Division; 127th Infantry, 32nd Division; 305th Infantry, 77th Division; 326th Infantry, 82nd Division; 23rd Infantry, 2nd Division; 110th Infantry, 28th Division; 303rd Field Artillery, 76th Division; 104th Engineers, 29th Division; and 104th Infantry, 26th Division. They died between January 13 and November 4, 1918, and were buried or memorialized at Surresnes, Aisne-Marne, Meuse-Argonne, Saint Mihiel, and Oise-Aisne.