American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 30th Division

Thirtieth Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Old Hickory Division
 * 30th Division Insignia
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 167

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

Additional Sources
 * Borrowed Soldiers: The American 27th and 30th Divisions and the British Army on the Ypres Front, August-September 1918.''
 * Native Americans Serving with the Thirtieth Division NARA NAID 34393347 1of 2
 * Native Americans Serving with the Thirtieth Division NARA NAID 34393316

Troops Drawn

 * National Guard. North Carolina and South Carolina, and Tennessee

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Sevier, South Carolina. 7.1917-4.1919

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 14,1918-June 24, 1918
 * Date sailed for home: March 18, 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 pp 19-20
 * Summaries of Operations 30th Division

Military Units attached to the Thirtieth Division
 59th Infantry Brigade   60th Infantry Brigade   55th Field Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 117th Infantry
 * 118th Infantry
 * 114th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 119th Infantry
 * 120th Infantry
 * 115th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 113th Field Artillery
 * 114th Field Artillery
 * 115th Field Artillery
 * 105th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 113th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 105th Engineers
 * 105th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 105th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 105th Ammunition Train
 * 105th Supply Train
 * 105th  Engineer Train
 * 105th   Sanitary Train-Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 117-120

Unit Histories

 * Thomas B. Collins, et. al., comp. With the 114th Machine Gun Battalion, 1917-1919. S.l.: s.n., 1920
 * Reese T. Amis History of the 114th Field Artillery.
 * Willard P. Sullivan. The History of the 105th Regiment of Engineers... New York:George H. Doran CO., 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

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 FamilySearch Historical Record Collections
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 * 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
 * North Carolina, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919

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