American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 33rd Division

Thirty-Third Division - National Guard
The volume will include the following for each Regular Army(RA), National Guard(NG) and National Army(NA) or Draft division:
 * Nickname: Prairie Illinois 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 199)
 * 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 Thirty-Third Division. NARA NAID 34393751

Troops Drawn
National Guard. Illinois

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Logan,Texas.7.18.1917-3.1919

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 18, 1918. June 16, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: May 9. 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 21-23
 * Summaries of Operations - 33rd Division
 * 33rd Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Thirty-third Division
 65th Infantry Brigade  66th Infantry Brigade 58th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 129th Infantry - 3rd Illinois National Guard
 * 130th Infantry
 * 123rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 131st Infantry
 * 132nd Infantry
 * 124th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 122nd Field Artillery
 * 123rd Field Artillery
 * 124th Field Artillery
 * 108th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 122nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 108th Engineers
 * 108th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 108th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 108th Ammunition Train
 * 108th Supply Train
 * 108th Engineer Train
 * 108th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 129-132

Unit Histories

 * Frederic Louis Huidekoper. The History of the 33rd Division, A.E.F. 4 vols. Springfield, Illinois: Ill. State Historical Library, 1921.
 * Earle C. Thornton. Record of events and roster of the 129th U.S. Infantry (formerly 3rd Ill. N.G.) 65th Brigade, 33rd Division : in the war with Germany, July 28, 1917-June 6, 1919. Camp Merritt, New Jersey? : publisher not identified, 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.
 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921
 * Rock Island County. Clark of the Circuit Court. Military petitions for naturalizations, 1918

Related Family History Library Holdings

 * Theodore Calvin Pease, ed. Illinois in the World War. 6 volumes. Springfield, Ill. : Illinois State Historical Library, 1921-23 Contents: v. 1-4. Huidekoper, F. L. The history of the 33rd division. 1921.--v. 5. Jenison, M. E. The war-time organization of Illinois. 1923.--v. 6. Jenison, M. E. War documents and addresses. 1923.

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