American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 6th Division

Sixth Division - Regular Army
The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 Page 90; Image 97
 * 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


 * Native Americans Serving with the Sixth Division NARA NAID 34393032

Troops Drawn

 * Regular Army

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp McClellan, Alabama. 7.18.1917-7.1.1929

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 12. 1918-July 26. 1918
 * Date sailed for home: June 3. 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 pp.12-13
 * Meuse-Argonne.

Military Units attached to the Sixth Division
 11th Infantry Brigade   12th Infantry Brigade   6th Field Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 51st Infantry
 * 52nd Infantry
 * 17th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 53rd Infantry
 * 54th Infantry
 * 18th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 3rd Field Artillery
 * 11th Field Artillery
 * 78th Field Artillery
 * 16th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 318th Engineers
 * 6th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 6th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 6th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 6th Ammunition Train
 * 6th Supply Train
 * 318th Engineer Train
 * 6th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 20,37,38,40

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 - National Archives Catalog
 * U.S. District Court. Military petitions, for Birmingham, Alabama, 1918-1924

Related 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.

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

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