American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 31st Division

Thirty-First Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Dixie 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 177

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

Troops Drawn

 * National Guard. Alabama, Florida, and Georgia

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Wheeler, Georgia. 7.1917 - 4.10.1919

Overseas Service

 * Seventh Depot Division

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Thirty-First Division
 61st Infantry Brigade   62nd Infantry Brigade   56th Field Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 121st Infantry
 * 122nd Infantry
 * 117th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 123rd Infantry
 * 124th Infantry
 * 118th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 116th Field Artillery
 * 117th Field Artillery
 * 118th Field Artillery
 * 106th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 116th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 106th Engineers
 * 106th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 106th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 106th Ammunition Train
 * 106th Supply Train
 * 106th Engineer Train
 * 106th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 121-124

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

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
 * Alabama, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
 * Florida, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
 * Georgia, World War I, Statement of Service Cards, 1920-1929

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