American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 8th Division

Eighth Division - Regular Army
Pathfinder Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 pages 106-11 (Images 113-118)

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

 * Regular Army

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Fremont, California, 7.18.1917-9.1919

Overseas Service

 * Date Landed in France: October 8 - November 9, 1918
 * Returned to the United States: December 25, 1918 - August 31,1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918 Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920

Military Units attached to the Eighth Division
 15th Infantry Brigade   16th Infantry Brigade   8th Field Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 12th Infantry
 * 62nd Infantry
 * 23rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 8th Infantry
 * 13th Infantry
 * 24th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 2nd Field Artillery
 * 81st Field Artillery
 * 83rd Field Artillery
 * 8th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 22nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 319th Engineers
 * 320th Field Signal battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 88th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 8th Ammunition Train
 * 8th Supply Train
 * 319 th Engineer Train
 * 8th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 11,31,32,43

Unit Histories

 * 12th Infantry Twelfth U.S. Infantry,1798-1919.

Soldier Naturalizations
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.
 * 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
 * Cath Trindle. Camp Fremont naturalization index, 1918-1919. San Mateo, California : San Mateo County Genealogical Society, c1999.
 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921

Related Family History Library Holdings

 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A. E. F: who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1920
 * American armies and battlefields in Europe : a history, guide, and reference book. Washington, D. C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1938
 * United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919. 17 volumes. Washington: D.C.:  Center of Military History, United States Army, 1988. FHL 973 M2usa; Volumes 1-3 Digital images v. 1. Organization of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 2. Policy-forming documents of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 3. Training and use of American Units with the British and French
 * Robert Forrest Wilson; Benedict Crowell, Demobilization. Our Industrial and Military Demobilization After the Armistice. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale university Press, 1921.

Related FamilySearch Historical Record Collections

 * 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

 * World War I American Expeditionary Forces Table of Organization, 1917-1919
 * 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

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