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

The following naturalizations occurred in the in the state which provided soldiers to this division. Some of the naturalizations may have taken place at the training camp and others elsewhere. Soldiers in these collections may have also served in other divisions.
 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921

Related 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

 * 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