United States World War I Pension Records

National Personal Records Center (National Archives at St. Louis)

 * National Archives at St. Louis
 * Veterans Administration Claim Files and World War I Burial Files
 * Finding Your World War I Veterans at the National Archives at St. Louis
 * World War I Records at the National Archives

Department of the Treasury. Bureau of War Risk Insurance. 9.2.1914-8.9.1921

 * Deceased Veterans Claims (XC Files), 10.1917-ca. 1945 NAID 23904754
 * Deceased Veterans Claims (XC Files), 10.1917-ca. 1949 NAID 12280123
 * Deceased Veterans Claims (XC Files), 10.1917--ca. 1955 NAID 28894631
 * Deceased veterans Claims (XC Files, 10.1917-ca. 1955 NAID 26466267
 * Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-9.16.1940? NAID 76193916
 * Indexes and Schedules of Officers and Seamen in American Merchant Marine Killed, Wounded, or Capture, 1.1.915-6.30.1919
 * Uncle Sam' Insurance for Soldiers and Sailors
 * New and Liberal Features of War Risk Insurance 1920
 * General World War I Organization Records Relating to Recruiting, Ca. 1910 -1921 RG 407 "..correspondence to the Bureau of War Risk Insurance"

Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Marine Division. 6.1917-10.1917

 * Claims Register, 1915-1919 NAID 2594802 Name of Claimant
 * Refund Registers, 1915-1919 NAID 2594974
 * Record Cards Concerning Parties at Interest in Hull and Cargo Indemnity Claims, 1917-1919. NAID 2594661Name and address of vessel owner

U.S. Shipping Board. Recruiting Service. 6.1.1917-9.23.1919 Record Group 41

 * Enrollment Cards for Recruits, 1918-1919 NAID 2789047
 * Lists of Merchant Seamen Lost in World War I, 1914-1919 NAID 2789082
 * Applications of Men Rejected for Sea Training, 1918-1921 NAID 2789048
 * Recruits' Account Cards, 1918-1921 NAID 2789057

Bureau of War Risk Litigation Record Group 190

 * Closed World War I Case Dockets, 1933-1944
 * Case and Docket Records Relating to Veterans, 1933-1938

Related National Archives Claim Records

 * War Department.Southeastern Department.Correspondence,Reports,Memorandums, and Telegrams Relating to War Risk Insurance and Family Allotments, 1917-1919. RG 393. NAID 1695785
 * U.S. District Court. Southern (Springfield) Division of the Western District of Missouri. War Risk Insurance Case Files, 11.25.1933-10.3.1930, RG 21. NAID 6802713

Bonus Applications

 * Applications for Bonus by Discharged Men and Related Correspondence, 1919. NAID 3396261

World War Adjusted Compensation Act "Bonus Act"

 * The World War Veterans' Act of 1924