American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 37th Division

Thirty-Seventh Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Buckeye Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 237

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
Ohio. National Guard.

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Sheridan. Alabama. 7.18.1917-3.15.1919

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France; June 18, 1918-July 21, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: Mar. 15, 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * Summaries of Operations - 37th Division
 * 37th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Seventh Division
73rd Infantry Brigade 77th Infantry Brigade 62nd Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 145th Infantry
 * 146th Infantry
 * 135th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 147th Infantry
 * 148th Infantry
 * 136th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 134th Field Artillery
 * 135th Field Artillery
 * 136th Field Artillery
 * 112th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 134th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 112th Engineers
 * 112th Field Signal Battalion
 * Headquarters Troop
 * 112th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 112th Ammunition Train
 * 112th Supply Train
 * 112th Engineer Train
 * 112th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals145-148

Soldier Naturalizations

 * 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

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

 Ohio
 * Ohio, World War I Statement of Service Cards, 1914-1919
 * Ohio, World War I, Enrollment Cards, 1914-1918

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