American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 85th Division

Eighty-Fifth 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: Custer Division
 * Fourth Depot Division
 * 85th Division. 8/25/1917-4/18/1919
 * 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
 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A.E.F : who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs, ©1920
 * Hermine Scholz ; with accompanying chapter by Richard J. Sommers,  World War I manuscripts : the World War I survey Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania : U.S. Army Military History Institute, 1986


 * 85th Division Personnel Data Forms, 1917-1919 NARA NAID 95115946
 * Native Americans Serving with the Eighty-Fifth Division. NARA NAID 34394455

Troops Drawn
Selective Service (Draft). Michigan and Wisconsin

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Custer, Michigan. 7.18.1917-8.17.1940

Major Operations

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

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Fifth Division
169th Infantry Brigade 170th Infantry Brigade 160th  Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 337th Infantry
 * 338th Infantry
 * 329th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 339th Infantry
 * 340th Infantry
 * 330th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 328th  Field Artillery
 * 329th Field Artillery
 * 330th Field Artillery
 * 310th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 328th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 310th  Engineers
 * 310th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 310th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 310th Ammunition Train
 * 310th Supply Train
 * 310th Engineer Train
 * 310th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 337-340)

Unit Histories

 * Dorothea York ; with the cooperation of Edward J. McCloskey ... (et al).. The romance of Company "A," 339th Infantry, A.N.R.E.F.. Detroit, Mich. : McIntyre Print. Co., 1923 FS Library fiche 6078602

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

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

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * 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
 * Michigan, Census of World War I Veterans with Card Index, 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