American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 93rd Division

Ninety-Third Division - National Army
The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * Provisional Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931
 * 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


 * Complete History of the Colored Soldiers in the World War;... New York City: Bennett & Churchill, 1919

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft)

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Stuart, Virginia. 8.22.1917 - 1919.(Newport News)

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France April, 1918
 * Date sailed for home: February 2-3, 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Washington Printing Office, 1920
 * 369th Infantry (Champagne-Marne Defensive (Champagne)-372nd Infantry (Meuse-Argonne (Champagne)
 * Aisne-Marne Offensive); Meuse-Argonne (Champagne) -370th Infantry (Oise-Aisne Offensive); 371st Infantry. Meuse-Argonne
 * Summaries of Operations - 93rd Division
 * 93rd Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Ninety-Third Division
 185th Infantry Brigade   186th Infantry Brigade   Field Artillery Brigade   Division Troops   Trains 
 * 369th Infantry
 * 370th Infantry
 * 371st Infantry
 * 372nd Infantry
 * None
 * None
 * None
 * The 93rd (colored) Division comprised only the 369th. 370th,371st and 372nd Infantry Regiments which were brigaded and operated entirely with the French

Unit Histories

 * Emmett J. Scott.  Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War. S. l.: E.J. Scott, 1919. FamilySearch Digital Book, 1919.*Chapter XVI. The 371st Infantry in France. pp. 231 - 238;Chapter XVII. The Record of the 372nd pp. 239-255

Soldier Naturalization

 * 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

The following naturalizations occurred in the in the state which provided soldiers to this division. Some of the naturalizations may have taken place at the training camp and others elsewhere. Soldiers in these collections may have also served in other divisions.


 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921

Related Family Search 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

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
 * George S. Robb Centre for the Study of the Great War - Park University

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