American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 85th Division

Eighty-Fifth Division - National Army
The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * Nickname: Custer Division
 * Fourth Depot Division
 * 85th Division. 8/25/1917-4/18/1919
 * 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


 * 85th Division Personnel Data Forms, 1917-1919 NARA NAID 95115946
 * Native Americans Serving with the Eighty-Fifth Division. NARA NAID 34394455

Troops Drawn
Selective Service (Draft). Michigan and Wisconsin

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Custer, Michigan. 7.18.1917-8.17.1940

Major Operations

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

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Fifth Division
169th Infantry Brigade 170th Infantry Brigade 160th  Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 337th Infantry
 * 338th Infantry
 * 329th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 339th Infantry
 * 340th Infantry
 * 330th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 328th  Field Artillery
 * 329th Field Artillery
 * 330th Field Artillery
 * 310th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 328th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 310th  Engineers
 * 310th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 310th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 310th Ammunition Train
 * 310th Supply Train
 * 310th Engineer Train
 * 310th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 337-340)

Unit Histories

 * Dorothea York ; with the cooperation of Edward J. McCloskey ... (et al).. The romance of Company "A," 339th Infantry, A.N.R.E.F.. Detroit, Mich. : McIntyre Print. Co., 1923 FHL fiche 6078602

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

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 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
 * Michigan, Census of World War I Veterans with Card Index, 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