American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 41st Division

Forty-First Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Sunset Division
 * First Depot Division
 * 41st Division. 1/8/1918-2/3/1919


 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 269

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


 * Native Americans Serving with the Forty - First Division NARA NAID34394143

Troops Drawn
Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, and District of Columbia.

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Fremont, California. 7.18.1917- 9.1919

Military Units attached to the Forty-First Division
81st  Infantry Brigade 82nd Infantry Brigade 66th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops  Trains
 * 161st  Infantry
 * 162nd Infantry
 * 147th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 163rd Infantry - 2nd Montana Infantry
 * 164th Infantry
 * 148th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 146th Field Artillery
 * 147th Field Artillery
 * 148th Field Artillery
 * 116th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 146th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 116th Engineers
 * 116th Field Signal Battalion
 * Headquarters Troop
 * 116th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 116th Ammunition Train
 * 116th Supply Train
 * 116th  Engineer Train
 * 116th   Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 161-164

Unit Histories

 * Record of Service of 147th Field Artillery in France to 11th November 1918. (1919).
 * Paul M. Davis and Hubert Kenneth Clay. History of Battery C, 148th Field Artillery,American Expeditionary Forces. Colorado Springs: Out West,1919
 * In commemoration of the Second Regiment Montana Infantry going to the front.

Soldier Naturalizations

 * 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.


 * Cath Trindle. Camp Fremont naturalization index, 1918-1919. San Mateo, California : San Mateo County Genealogical Society, c1999.


 * 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
 * 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

 * 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