The memorial was created by Jean Boucher who had used a photograph of Seeger as his inspiration. On the sixth anniversary of his death a memorial to the American volunteers was unveiled in the Place des Etats-Unis. His poetry was published posthumously later that year, it was not a great success but his poem 'I Have a Rendezvous with Death. On American Independence day, July 4th, 1917 whilst urging on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge at Belloy-en-Santerre he was hit several times by machine gun fire and died. War's looming dark shadow was to have a transformative effect on the young poet and on August 24th 1914 he joined the French Foreign Legion so he could fight for the Allies. He graduated in 1910 and went to live the life of a bohemian in Greenwich Village, New York thereafter moving to Paris to continue his poetry writing in the Latin quarter. After attending several elite preparatory schools he enrolled at Harvard in 1906 where he also edited and wrote for the Harvard Monthly. The family moved to Staten Island when he was 1 for 9 years and then on to Mexico until he was 12. Alan Seeger was born on June 22nd 1888 in New York.
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