American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 80th Division

Eightieth Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Blue Ridge Division
 * Division established August 27th, 1917.
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931

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

Troops Drawn

 * Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Lee, Virginia. 7.18.1917 - 6.28.1921 - Petersburg

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 23, 1918-June 1, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: May 17. 1919.

Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 pp32-33
 * Summaries of Operations 80th Division
 * 80th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Eightieth Division
159th Infantry Brigade 160th Infantry Brigade 155th  Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 317th Infantry
 * 318th Infantry
 * 313th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 319th Infantry
 * 320th Infantry
 * 315th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 313th  Field Artillery
 * 314th Field Artillery
 * 315th Field Artillery
 * 305th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 314th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 305th  Engineers
 * 305th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 305th  Train HQ and Military Police
 * 305th Ammunition Train
 * 305th Supply Train
 * 305th Engineer Train
 * 305th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 317-320

Unit Histories

 * A History of the 313th Field Artillery, U.S.A. New York,New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1920
 * History of the 318th Infantry Regiment of the 80th Division,1917-1919. Richmond,Virginia: William Byrd Press, 1919

Soldier Naturalizations
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.
 * 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


 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921

FamilySearch Resources
 Related Family History Library Holdings 
 * Arthur Kyle Davis, editor. Virginia military organizations in the World War : with supplement of distinguished service. Richmond, Virginia : Virginia War History Commission, 1927. FHL 975.5 M2vo Virginia in the 80th Division pp 239-333

 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 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