American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 91st Division

Ninety-First Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Wild West Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931

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
 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A.E.F : who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs, ©1920
 * Hermine Scholz ; with accompanying chapter by Richard J. Sommers,  World War I manuscripts : the World War I survey Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania : U.S. Army Military History Institute, 1986
 * Native Americans Serving with the Ninety-First Division NARA NAID 34394970

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft) Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, Utah

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Lewis, Washington. 7.18.1917-9.30.1927

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: July 14, 1918, July 26,1918
 * Date sailed for Home March-April. 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * Summaries of Operations - 91st Division


 * St. Mihiel (reserve)12-16 September 1918.
 * Meuse-Argonne. 26 September - 11 November 1918.

Military Units attached to the Ninety-First Division
181st Infantry Brigade 182rd Infantry Brigade 166th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains 
 * 361st Infantry
 * 362rd Infantry
 * 347th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 363rd Infantry
 * 364th Infantry
 * 348th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 346th Field Artillery
 * 347th Field Artillery
 * 348th Field Artillery
 * 316th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 346th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 316th Engineers
 * 316th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 316th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 316th Ammunition Train
 * 316th Supply Train
 * 316th Engineer Train
 * 316th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals  361-364)

Unit Histories

 * Alice Palmer Henderson. The ninety-first, the first at Camp Lewis. Tacoma, Wash. : J. C. Barr, 1918
 * The Story of the 91st Division. San Mateo, Calif.:91st Division Publication Committee, 1919
 * John Uberto Calkins. History of the 347th Machine Gun Battalion.'' Oakland, Calif.: Press of Horwinski Company,
 * Gardner Hamilton. History of the 346th Field Artillery.
 * Harold Hitz Burton.600 Days' Service: a History of the 361st Infantry Regiment of the United States Army. Portland, OR., James Kerns & Abbott Co., 1921
 * Roger Heller. 361st Infantry.

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

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

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * 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
 * California, Geographical and Name Index of Californians who served in WWI, 1914-1918
 * California, Honor Roll of Californians who served in WWI, 1914-1918
 * Montana, Military Records, 1904-1918
 * Oregon, World War I, County Military Service Records, 1919-1920
 * Oregon, World War I, Veteran State Aid Applications, 1921-1938
 * Utah, World War I Service Questionnaires, 1914-1918
 * Utah, World War I Army Servicemen Records Abstracts, 1914-1918
 * Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918
 * Washington, World War I Veteran's Compensation Fund Application Records, 1921-1925

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