American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 34th Division

Thirty-Fourth Division - National Guard

 * Nickname:Sandstorm Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 211

The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * Division Commanders
 * Division Composition: Infantry and Field Artillery Brigades, Divisional Trains; Trains: Ammunition, Supply, Engineer, Sanitary (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals); Attached: short term unit attachments; Detached: units detached from the division
 * Division Chronology- Assignment: Army, Corps, Date; Division Headquarters: Location, Date
 * Record of Events: Organization and Movement Overseas; Completion of Organization in France; Record of Events: Training and Operations; Record of Events: Return to the United States and Demobilization

Troops Drawn

 * National Guard, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. (Personnel used as replacements)

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Cody, New Mexico. 7.18.1917-6.25.1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Fourth Division
 67th Infantry Brigade  68th Infantry Brigade 59th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 133rd Infantry
 * 134th Infantry
 * 126th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 135th Infantry
 * 136th Infantry
 * 127th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 125th Field Artillery
 * 126th Field Artillery
 * 127th Field Artillery
 * 109th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 125th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 109th Engineers
 * 109th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 109th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 109th Ammunition Train
 * 109th Supply Train
 * 109th  Engineer Train
 * 109th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 133-136

Soldier Naturalizations

 * John J Newman. American naturalization processes and procedures, 1790-1985. pp. 15-16 will discuss naturalization of soldiers
 * Marian L. Smith. ‘’ ‘New Means and New Machinery:’ the problem of World War I soldier naturalization research.’’ NGS News Magazine (April/May/June,2005): 23-28

Naturalizations may have occurred in the in the state which provided soldiers to this division. Some of the naturalizations may have taken place at the training camp or other courts.
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921 Training Camps

Related FamilySearch Historical Record Collections

 * United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
 * United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940
 * United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919
 * United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918

 Minnesota
 * Minnesota, World War I Records, 1918-1941

Related FamilySearch Wiki Articles

 * Beginning United States World War I Research
 * United States World War I Infantry Divisions
 * World War I American Expeditionary Forces Table of Organization, 1917-1919
 * World War I United States Military Records, 1917 to 1918

Related Websites

 * The National WWI Museum and Memorial Kansas City, MO.
 * United States World War One Centennial Commission

Reference Sources

 * American Expeditionary Forces Distinctive Cloth Insignia Chart
 * U.S. Army Center of Military History Campaigns: World War I
 * U.S.Army Center of Military History World War I Divisions: Then and Now