American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, Eighty-Fourth Division

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


 * 84th Division. 8/25/1917-7/26/1919 NARA Organization Authority Record NAID 10513772

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft) Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. 7.18.1917-6.30.1921

Major Operations

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

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Fourth Division
167th Infantry Brigade 168th Infantry Brigade 8335th Infantry 159th  Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 333rd Infantry
 * 334th Infantry
 * 326th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 336th Infantry
 * 327th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 325th  Field Artillery
 * 326th Field Artillery
 * 327th Field Artillery
 * 309th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 325th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 309th  Engineers
 * 309th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 309th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 309th Ammunition Train
 * 309th Supply Train
 * 309th Engineer Train
 * 309th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 333-336)

Soldier Naturalizations
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.
 * 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


 * 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

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