American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 28th Division

Twenty-Eighth Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Keystone Division


 * 28th Division Insignia

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 First Image 147
 * 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 Twenty-Eighth Division. NARA NAID 34393237

Troops Drawn

 * Pennsylvania. National Guard.

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Hancock. Georgia.7.19.1917-4.26.1920.
 * Camp Hancock, Georgia. Register of Recruits, 1918. NAID 892091

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 14. 1918-June 11, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: April 20, 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. 17-18
 * 28th Division - Summaries of Operations
 * 28th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Twenty-eighth Division
 55th Infantry Brigade   56th Infantry Brigade   53rd Field Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 109th Infantry
 * 110th Infantry - 10th Pennsylvania
 * 108th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 111th Infantry
 * 112th Infantry -8th /16th Pennsylvania Infantry
 * 109th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 107th Field Artillery
 * 108th Field Artillery
 * 109th Field Artillery
 * 103rd Trench Mortar Battery
 * 107th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 103rd Engineers
 * 103rd Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 103rd Train HQ and Military Police
 * 103rd Ammunition Train
 * 103rd Supply Train
 * 103rd Engineer Train
 * 103rd  Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 109-112

Unit Histories

 * Pennsylvania in the World War an illustrated history of the Twenty- Eighth Division. vol. 1 Pittsburgh, Pa.: States Publications Society, 1921.
 * Pennsylvania in the World War an illustrated history of the Twenty- Eighth Division. vol. 2 Pittsburgh, Pa.: States Publications Society, 1921.
 * Association of the 110th Infantry, Pennsylvania. History of the 110th Infantry (10th Pa.) of the 28th Division, U.S.A., 1917-1919.Association of the 110th Infantry, 1920
 * Colonel George C. Rickard. A short history and illustrated roster of the 112th Infantry. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Edward Stern & Co., c1918

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

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