American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 27th Division

Twenty-Seventh Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Empire (New York) Division
 * 27th Division Insignia
 * Twenty-Seventh Infantry Division History


 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 Pages 130-139. (images 137-146)

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


 * Borrowed Soldiers: The American 27th and 30th Divisions and the British Army on the Ypres Front, August-September 1918.''
 * Records of the 27th Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, (World War I), 1917-1919. National Archives Microfilm Publication M819, 60 rolls
 * Reports of Americans with the British Expeditionary Forces Who Were Killed or Hospitalized, 1918 - 1919
 * New York World War I Dead A.E.F. National Archives Catalog Images NAID 34390682 Collection indexed on FamilySearch

Training
 Troops Drawn 
 * Sixth Division, National Guard of New York.

 Training Camp in the United States 
 * Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 7, 1918-July 12, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: Feb. 27,1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces pp. 16-17.
 * 27th Division, Summary of Operations in the World War. American Battle Monuments Commission. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1944
 * 27th Division - Summaries of Operations
 * 27th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Twenty-Seventh Division
 53rd Infantry Brigade   54th Infantry Brigade   53rd Field Artillery Brigade  Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 105th Infantry
 * 106th Infantry
 * 105th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 107th Infantry
 * 108th Infantry
 * 106th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 104th Field Artillery
 * 105th Field Artillery
 * 106th Field Artillery
 * 102nd Trench Mortar Battery
 * 104th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 102nd Engineers
 * 102nd Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 102nd Train HQ and Military Police
 * 102nd Ammunition Train
 * 102nd Supply Train
 * 102nd Engineer Train
 * 102nd  Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 105-108

Unit Histories

 * John F. O'Ryan. The Story of the 27th Division. Vol. 1 New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co.,1921.
 * John F. O'Ryan. The Story of the 27th Division. Vol. 2 New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co.,1921.
 * Stanton Whitney.  Squadron A in the Great War, 1917-1918, including a narrative of the 105th M.G. Battalion. New York:Squadron A Association, 1923.
 * Gerald F. Jacobson. History of the 107th Infantry U.S.A. New York City: Seventh Regiment Armory, 1920
 * Our book : "Company A" 102 Ammunition Train S. l.: C.M. Bard, 1919

Soldier Naturalization
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

Related Family Search Historical Record Collections

 * New York Records of the State National Guard, 1906-1954
 * United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
 * United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 19117-1919
 * United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940
 * 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

Related Websites

 * New York World War One Units State Military Museum
 * Roll of Honor State Military Museum
 * National Guard World War I New York State Archives

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