American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 88th Division

Eighty-Eighth Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Clover Leaf Division

The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931
 * 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


 * Native Americans Serving with the 86th-88th Divisions NARA NAID 34394524

Troops Drawn

 * North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Dodge. Iowa. 6.18.1917 - 1922

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: August 8,- September 9, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: May, 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Beligum and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office,1920 P. 35

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Eighth Division
175th Infantry Brigade 176th Infantry Brigade 163rd  Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 349th Infantry
 * 350th Infantry
 * 338th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 351st Infantry
 * 352nd Infantry
 * 339th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 337th  Field Artillery
 * 338th Field Artillery
 * 339th Field Artillery
 * 313th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 337th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 338th Engineers
 * 313th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 313th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 313th Ammunition Train
 * 313th Supply Train
 * 313th Engineer Train
 * 383rd Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 349-352)

Unit Histories

 * Proctor M. Fiske. History of the 350th Regiment of U.S. Infantry, Eighty-Eighth Division, American Expeditionary Forces. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Laurence Press Company,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

 * Roster of the men and women who served in the army or naval service including the Marine Corps, or the United States or its allies from the state of North Dakota in the World War, 1917-1918. 4 volumes. Bismarck, North Dakota : Bismark Tribune Co., 1931
 * North Dakota, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919
 * Minnesota, World War I Records, 1918-1941

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

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