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
 * 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
 * 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.

Soldier Naturalizations

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

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

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