American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 34th Division

Thirty-Fourth Division - National Guard

 * Nickname:Sandstorm Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 211

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

 * National Guard, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. (Personnel used as replacements)

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Cody, New Mexico. 7.18.1917-6.25.1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Fourth Division
 67th Infantry Brigade  68th Infantry Brigade 59th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 133rd Infantry
 * 134th Infantry
 * 126th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 135th Infantry
 * 136th Infantry
 * 127th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 125th Field Artillery
 * 126th Field Artillery
 * 127th Field Artillery
 * 109th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 125th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 109th Engineers
 * 109th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 109th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 109th Ammunition Train
 * 109th Supply Train
 * 109th  Engineer Train
 * 109th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 133-136

Soldier Naturalizations

 * 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

 * 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

 Minnesota
 * Minnesota, World War I Records, 1918-1941

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