American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 83rd Division

Eighty-Third Division - National Army

 * Second Depot 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

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft) Ohio and Pennsylvania

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Sherman, Ohio. 6.21.1917-1921

Major Operations

 * Second Depot Division
 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Third Division
165th Infantry Brigade 166th Infantry Brigade 158th  Field Artillery Brigade 8322nd  Field Artillery Divisional Troops Trains
 * 329th Infantry
 * 330th Infantry
 * 323rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 331st Infantry
 * 332nd Infantry
 * 324th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 323rd Field Artillery
 * 324th Field Artillery
 * 308th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 322nd  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 308th  Engineers
 * 308th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 308th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 308th Ammunition Train
 * 308th Supply Train
 * 308th Engineer Train
 * 308th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 329-332)

Unit Histories

 * Carl A Shem. History of Battery E, 323rd Field Artillery. Cleveland,Ohio: the Press of Ward and Shaw Co., 1921
 * T.Q. Ashburn. History of the 324th Field Artillery United States Army. New York:George H. Doran Co.,1919
 * R.La Rue Cober, ed.The Trail of Battery D,Three Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Heavy Field Artillery,American Expeditionary Forces. Marietta,Ohio,Printed by the Hyde brothers,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


 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921
 * U.S. District Court, Southern Division. Dayton. Military petition for naturalization, 1918-1919
 * U.S. District Court, Southern District. Columbus. Military petitions for naturalization, 1918-1919

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

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