American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 6th Division

Sixth Division - Regular Army

 * Native Americans Serving with the Sixth Division NARA NAID 34393032
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 Page 90

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.
 * French training area: Chateauvillain, Valdahon.
 * Date entered line: Aug. 28.,1918. Vosges Sector.
 * Date sailed for home: June 3. 1919.

Major Operations

 * Meuse-Argonne.
 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

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

Casualties and Replacements

 * Battle Casualties 6 April 1917 - 11 Nov 1918: 386
 * Replacements: 2,784
 * Strengths 13 Nov 1918: 24,798

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

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