American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 1st Division

First Division - Regular Army

 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Division pages 1-19 (images 8-26)

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


 * First Infantry Division History
 * 1st Division Operations Map,1921-1928. NAID 1067647
 * First Division Regulars Records, ca. 1918 - ca. 1930 NAID 7933981
 * First Division Insignia
 * War Department. American Expeditionary Forces. Historical Section. Records Relation to American Indians First Division. NARA NAID 34392102

Training
Troops Drawn 
 * "The majority of the troops selected are in service near the Mexican Border... ; others are at Washington Barracks and Ft.Oglethrope; new organizations join at port of embarkation."  Land Forces Order of Battle. p. 5

 Training Camp in the United States 
 * Regular Army Troops.

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France:June 26-July 6,1917.
 * Date sailed for home: Aug.25,1919.

Major Operations

 * ''Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 pp. 3-5
 * American Battle Monuments Commission. First Division Summary of Operations in the World War. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1944.
 * First Division Summary of Operations. NARA NAID 143887819

Military Units attached to the First Division
1st Infantry Brigade 2nd Infantry Brigade 1st Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 16th Infantry
 * 18th Infantry
 * 2nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 26th Infantry
 * 28th Infantry
 * 3rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 5th Field Artillery
 * 6th Field Artillery
 * 7th Field Artillery
 * 1st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 1st Engineers
 * 2nd Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 1st Train HQ and Military Police
 * 1st Ammunition Train
 * 1st Supply Train
 * 1st Engineer Train
 * 1st Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 2,3,12,13)

Unit Histories

 * Society of the First Division. History of the First Division During the World War, 1917-1919. Philadelphia, Pa.: John C. Winston Co., 1922
 * Henry Russel Miller The First Division [Pittsburg,The Crescent Press,1920
 * Army War College. World War Records, First Division A.E.F. (Regular) 25 vols. Washington,D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1930
 * F.C. Armstrong. The Story of the Sixteenth Infantry in France. Frankurt: Martin Flock, 1919.
 * Ralph T. Heard. A History of the Sixth Regiment, Field Artillery, First Division,United States Army.Coblenz,Germany: [s.n.,1919

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

Family History Library Holdings

 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A.E.F : who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs, 1920 p.68-69
 * American armies and battlefields in Europe : a history, guide, and reference book. Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1938
 * ‘’United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919.’’ 17 volumes. Washington: D.C.:  Center of Military History, United States Army, 1988. FHL 973 M2usa; Volumes 1-3 Digital images v. 1. Organization of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 2. Policy-forming documents of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 3. Training and use of American Units with the British and French

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

 * World War Records, First Division at First Division Museum
 * 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

 Sources
 * William E. Moore and James C. Russell. U.S. Official Pictures of the World War. Washington,D.C.: Pictorial Bureau, 1920
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931
 * Leonard L. Lerwill. The Personnel Replacement System in the United States Army. department of the Army, August, 1954