American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 8th Division

Eighth Division - Regular Army
Pathfinder Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 pages 106-11 (Images 113-118)

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

 * Regular Army

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Fremont, California, 7.18.1917-9.1919

Overseas Service

 * Date Landed in France: October 8 - November 9, 1918
 * Returned to the United States: December 25, 1918 - August 31,1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918 Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920

Military Units attached to the Eighth Division
 15th Infantry Brigade   16th Infantry Brigade   8th Field Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 12th Infantry
 * 62nd Infantry
 * 23rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 8th Infantry
 * 13th Infantry
 * 24th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 2nd Field Artillery
 * 81st Field Artillery
 * 83rd Field Artillery
 * 8th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 22nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 319th Engineers
 * 320th Field Signal battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 88th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 8th Ammunition Train
 * 8th Supply Train
 * 319 th Engineer Train
 * 8th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 11,31,32,43

Unit Histories

 * 12th Infantry Twelfth U.S. Infantry,1798-1919.

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

Naturalizations may have occurred in the in the state which provided soldiers to this division. Some of the naturalizations may have taken place at the training camp or other courts.
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921 Training Camps
 * Cath Trindle. Camp Fremont naturalization index, 1918-1919. San Mateo, California : San Mateo County Genealogical Society, c1999.

Family History Library Holdings

 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A. E. F: who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1920
 * American armies and battlefields in Europe : a history, guide, and reference book. Washington, D. C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1938
 * United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919. 17 volumes. Washington: D.C.:  Center of Military History, United States Army, 1988. FHL 973 M2usa; Volumes 1-3 Digital images v. 1. Organization of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 2. Policy-forming documents of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 3. Training and use of American Units with the British and French
 * Robert Forrest Wilson; Benedict Crowell, Demobilization. Our Industrial and Military Demobilization After the Armistice. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale university Press, 1921.

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * 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

Related FamilySearch Wiki Articles

 * World War I American Expeditionary Forces Table of Organization, 1917-1919
 * 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

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