American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 37th Division

Thirty-Seventh Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Buckeye 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 237

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
Ohio. National Guard.

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Sheridan. Alabama. 7.18.1917-3.15.1919

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France; June 18, 1918-July 21, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: Mar. 15, 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * Summaries of Operations - 37th Division
 * 37th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Seventh Division
73rd Infantry Brigade 77th Infantry Brigade 62nd Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 145th Infantry
 * 146th Infantry
 * 135th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 147th Infantry
 * 148th Infantry
 * 136th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 134th Field Artillery
 * 135th Field Artillery
 * 136th Field Artillery
 * 112th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 134th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 112th Engineers
 * 112th Field Signal Battalion
 * Headquarters Troop
 * 112th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 112th Ammunition Train
 * 112th Supply Train
 * 112th Engineer Train
 * 112th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals145-148

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

 Ohio
 * Ohio, World War I Statement of Service Cards, 1914-1919
 * Ohio, World War I, Enrollment Cards, 1914-1918

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