American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 89th Division

Eighty-Ninth Division - National Army

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

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
 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A.E.F : who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs, ©1920
 * Hermine Scholz ; with accompanying chapter by Richard J. Sommers,  World War I manuscripts : the World War I survey Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania : U.S. Army Military History Institute, 1986


 * Native Americans Serving with the Eighty-Ninth Division. NARA NAID 34394676

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft)

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Funston

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: June 11, 1918. July 10, l918
 * Date sailed for Home May 19. 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * Summaries of Operation - 89th Division

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Ninth Division
177th Infantry Brigade 178th Infantry Brigade 164th Field Artillery Brigade Division Troop Trains
 * 353rd Infantry
 * 354th Infantry
 * 341st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 355th Infantry
 * 356th Infantry
 * 342nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 340th Field Artillery
 * 341st Field Artillery
 * 342nd Field Artillery
 * 314th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 340th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 314th Engineers
 * 314th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 314th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 314th Ammunition Train
 * 314th Supply Train
 * 314th Engineer Train
 * 314th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals  353-356)

Unit Histories

 * George H English. History of the 89th Division, U.S.A.: from its organization in 1917, through its operations in the World War, the occupation of Germany and unit demobilization in 1919. Kansas City, Missouri:The War Society of the 89th Division, 1920.
 * Regimental History Three Hundred and Forty-First Field Artillery. Eighty-Ninth Division of the National Army
 * Robert Walston Chubb. Regimental History,342nd Field Artillery, 89th Division. New York: The Regimental Historian,1921
 * Charles Franklin Dienst. History of the 353rd Infantry Regiment, 89th Division, National Army, September, 1917-June, 1919. Wichita, Kansas: 1921.
 * Carlisle L. Jones. History and Roster of the 355th Infantry...Lincoln, Nebraska: Society of the 355th Infantry,39th Division,1919.

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

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

FamilySearch Catalog

 * William A. Raupp.  Report of the Adjutant General of Missouri, January 10, 1921-December 31, 1924. Jefferson, Missouri : The Hugh Stephens Press, 1925? See pp 97- (Images 100-175) Includes Missouri roster of World War I casualties for the Regular Army, Navy, Marines, National Guard and Regular Army nurses; lists of veterans for the Regular Army and National Army.


 * Missouri, Pre-WWII Adjutant General Enlistment Contracts, 1900-1941

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * 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

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

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