American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 7th Division

Seventh Division - Regular Army
The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * 7th Division NARA Organization Authority Record
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 105
 * 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 Seventh Division NAID 34393072

Troops Drawn

 * Regular Army

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp MacArthur, Texas. 7.29.1917 - 3.7.1919.

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: Aug. 6, 1918-Sept. 3, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home:

Major Operations

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

Military Units attached to the Seventh Division
 13th Infantry Brigade   14th Infantry Brigade   7th Field Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 55th Infantry
 * 56th Infantry
 * 20th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 34th Infantry
 * 64th Infantry
 * 21st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 8th Field Artillery
 * 79th Field Artillery
 * 80th Field Artillery
 * 7th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 19th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 5th Engineers
 * 10th Field Signal battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 7th Ammunition Train
 * 7th Supply Train
 * 5th Engineer Train
 * 7th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 22,34,35,36

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
 * 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

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