Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 November 2019

1st Battalion
19th Field Artillery Regiment
(Eagles)

  • Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 19th Field Artillery
  • Organized 1 June 1917 at Camp Wilson, Texas
  • (19th Field Artillery assigned 12 December 1917 to the 5th Division [later redesig­nated as the 5th Infantry Division])
  • Inactivated 6 September 1921 at Camp Bragg, North Carolina
  • Activated 3 December 1934 at Fort Benja­min Harrison, Indiana
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery A, 19th Field Artillery Battalion
  • Inactivated 20 September 1946 at Camp Campbell, Kentucky
  • Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
  • Inactivated 30 April 1950 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
  • Activated 1 March 1951 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Penn­sylvania
  • Inactivated 1 September 1953 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania
  • Activated 25 May 1954 in Germany
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1957 as Headquarters and Head­quarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 19th Artillery, and relieved from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
  • Battalion inactivated 25 April 1961 at Fort Ord, California
  • Redesignated 19 February 1962 as the 1st Battalion, 19th Artillery, assigned to the 5th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado
  • Relieved 15 December 1970 from assignment to the 5th Infan­try Division and assigned to the 4th Infantry Division
  • Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 19th Field Artillery
  • Inactivated 1 April 1984 at Fort Carson, Colorado, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division
  • Headquarters transferred 28 February 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 19th Field Artillery Regiment

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • *St. Mihiel
  • *Lorraine 1918
  • World War II
  • *Normandy
  • *Northern France
  • *Rhineland
  • *Ardennes‑Alsace

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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