American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 31st Division

Thirty-First Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Dixie 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 177

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. Alabama, Florida, and Georgia

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Wheeler, Georgia. 7.1917 - 4.10.1919

Overseas Service

 * Seventh Depot Division

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Thirty-First Division
 61st Infantry Brigade   62nd Infantry Brigade   56th Field Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 121st Infantry
 * 122nd Infantry
 * 117th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 123rd Infantry
 * 124th Infantry
 * 118th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 116th Field Artillery
 * 117th Field Artillery
 * 118th Field Artillery
 * 106th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 116th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 106th Engineers
 * 106th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 106th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 106th Ammunition Train
 * 106th Supply Train
 * 106th Engineer Train
 * 106th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 121-124

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

 * 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
 * Alabama, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
 * Florida, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
 * Georgia, World War I, Statement of Service Cards, 1920-1929

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