American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 28th Division

Twenty-Eighth Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Keystone Division


 * 28th Division Insignia

The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft 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 147
 * 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 Twenty-Eighth Division. NARA NAID 34393237

Troops Drawn

 * Pennsylvania. National Guard.

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Hancock. Georgia.7.19.1917-4.26.1920.
 * Camp Hancock, Georgia. Register of Recruits, 1918. NAID 892091

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 14. 1918-June 11, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: April 20, 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy,1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 pp. 17-18
 * 28th Division - Summaries of Operations
 * 28th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Twenty-eighth Division
 55th Infantry Brigade   56th Infantry Brigade   53rd Field Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 109th Infantry
 * 110th Infantry - 10th Pennsylvania
 * 108th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 111th Infantry
 * 112th Infantry -8th /16th Pennsylvania Infantry
 * 109th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 107th Field Artillery
 * 108th Field Artillery
 * 109th Field Artillery
 * 103rd Trench Mortar Battery
 * 107th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 103rd Engineers
 * 103rd Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 103rd Train HQ and Military Police
 * 103rd Ammunition Train
 * 103rd Supply Train
 * 103rd Engineer Train
 * 103rd  Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 109-112

Unit Histories

 * Pennsylvania in the World War an illustrated history of the Twenty- Eighth Division. vol. 1 Pittsburgh, Pa.: States Publications Society, 1921.
 * Pennsylvania in the World War an illustrated history of the Twenty- Eighth Division. vol. 2 Pittsburgh, Pa.: States Publications Society, 1921.
 * Association of the 110th Infantry, Pennsylvania. History of the 110th Infantry (10th Pa.) of the 28th Division, U.S.A., 1917-1919.Association of the 110th Infantry, 1920
 * Colonel George C. Rickard. A short history and illustrated roster of the 112th Infantry. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Edward Stern & Co., c1918

Soldier Naturalization

 * 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
 * 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