American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 2nd Division

Second Division - Regular Army

 * Second Division - Regular Army
 * 2nd Infantry Division. 10/1917-9/18/1947 Organization Authority Record NARA
 * 2nd Division Insignia
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 Pages 21-41; images 28-48

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

Training
 Troops Drawn  "...includes troops of the U.S. Marine Corps which are at Quantico or already in France, and units of the Regular Regular Army stationed at Chickamauga Park, El Paso, Gettysburg, Governors Island, Philadelphia, Syracuse, Fts. Benjamin Harrison, Ethan Allen, Myer, Oglethrope, Riley, Sam Houston, and Camps Robinson and Vail..." Land Forces. Order of Battle p. 25


 *  Training Camp in the United States
 * Regular Army and Marine Corps Troops

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France:July 27, 1917-March 5, 1918
 * Date sailed for home: July 25, 1919

Major Operations

 * ''Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Beligun and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 Pages 5-8
 * Blanc Mont (Meuse-Argonne Champagne) Operations of the 2D and 36th Divisions with the Fourth French Army in Champagne in October 1918.

Military Units attached to the Second Division

 * 3rd Infantry Brigade
 * 9th Infantry
 * 23rd Infantry
 * 5th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 4th (Marine)Infantry Brigade
 * 5th Marines
 * 6th Marines
 * 6th Machine Gun Battalion (Marines)
 * 2nd Field Artillery Brigade
 * 12th Field Artillery
 * 15th Field Artillery
 * 17th Field Artillery
 * 2nd Trench Mortar Battery
 * Divisional Troops
 * 4th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 2nd Engineers
 * 1st Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * Trains
 * 2d Train HQ and Military Police
 * 2d Ammuniation Train
 * 2d Supply Train
 * 2d Engineers
 * 2d Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals:1,15,16,23)

Unit Histories

 * Oliver L. Spaulding and John W. Wright. The Second Division, American Expeditionary Force in France,1917-1919. New York, Hillman, 1937.
 * George B. Clark, ed. John W. Thomason.  The United States Army Second Division Northwest of Chateau Thierry in World War I. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2006.
 * George B. Clark. Decorated marines of the Fourth Brigade in World War I.Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers, ©2007 FHL 973 M2cgb
 * History of the Second Battalion, Fifth Marines. Quantico, Va.: First Brigade, Fleet Marines, Marine Barracks.
 * A Brief History of the Sixth Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps: from its organization, July 1917, to the date of arrival at its present station at and in the vicinity of Leutesdorf Germany, Army occupation, December 1918.
 * History of the Third Battalion Sixth Regiment, U.S. Marines. Hillsdale, Michigan: Akers, Mac Ritchie & Hurlbut, 1919
 * The Ninth U.S. Infantry in the World War.
 * "Documents Relative to the Service in World War I of Captain Warren A. Lyon, 1918-1919."

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.

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
 * 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, 19117-1919
 * 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

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