American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 93rd Division

Ninety-Third Division - National Army
The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * Provisional 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


 * Complete History of the Colored Soldiers in the World War;... New York City: Bennett & Churchill, 1919
 * 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

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft)

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Stuart, Virginia. 8.22.1917 - 1919.(Newport News)

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France April, 1918
 * Date sailed for home: February 2-3, 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Washington Printing Office, 1920
 * 369th Infantry (Champagne-Marne Defensive (Champagne)-372nd Infantry (Meuse-Argonne (Champagne)
 * Aisne-Marne Offensive); Meuse-Argonne (Champagne) -370th Infantry (Oise-Aisne Offensive); 371st Infantry. Meuse-Argonne
 * Summaries of Operations - 93rd Division
 * 93rd Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Ninety-Third Division
 185th Infantry Brigade   186th Infantry Brigade   Field Artillery Brigade   Division Troops   Trains 
 * 369th Infantry
 * 370th Infantry
 * 371st Infantry
 * 372nd Infantry
 * None
 * None
 * None
 * The 93rd (colored) Division comprised only the 369th. 370th,371st and 372nd Infantry Regiments which were brigaded and operated entirely with the French

Unit Histories

 * Emmett J. Scott.  Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War. S. l.: E.J. Scott, 1919. FamilySearch Digital Book, 1919.*Chapter XVI. The 371st Infantry in France. pp. 231 - 238;Chapter XVII. The Record of the 372nd pp. 239-255

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 Family Search 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

 * The National WWI Museum and Memorial Kansas City, MO.
 * United States World War One Centennial Commission
 * George S. Robb Centre for the Study of the Great War - Park University

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