American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 35th Division

Division -Thirty-Fifth National Guard

 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 217

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

National Archives
 * 35th Division History of Operations Files, 1918-1919. War Department. Records of the American Expeditionary Forces, Record Group 120. NAID 1812855
 * Records of the 35th Division Association
 * Memorandum from Colonel H.S. Hawkins, Report of 35th Division Men Missing in Action. NAID 75439047
 * Native Americans Serving with the Thirty-Fifth Division. NARA NAID 34393827

Training
Troops Drawn
 * N. G. troops of Missouri and Kansas

 Training Camp in the United States 
 * Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, 7.18.1917-7.7.1918

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 11,1918-June 8. 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: Apr. 8, 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * Summaries of Operations 35th Division
 * Meuse-Argonne. Losses of the Thirty-Fifth Division

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Fifth Division
69th Infantry Brigade 70th Infantry Brigade 60th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 137th Infantry
 * 138th Infantry
 * 129th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 139th Infantry
 * 140th Infantry
 * 130th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 128th Field Artillery
 * 129th Field Artillery
 * 130th Field Artillery
 * 110th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 128th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 110th Engineeers
 * 110th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 110th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 110th Ammunition Train
 * 110th Supply Train
 * 110th Engineer Train
 * 110th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 137-140

Unit Histories

 * Clair Kenamore. From Vauquois Hill to Exermont: a history of the Thirty-Fifth Division of the United States Army. St. Louis:Guard Publishing Co., 1919.
 * Charles B. Hoyt. Heroes of the Argonne: an authentic History of the Thirty-Fifth Division. Kansas City, Mo.: Franklin Hudson, 1919.
 * Jay McIlvaine. The artilleryman : the experiences and impressions of an American artillery regiment in the World War. 129th F.A., 1917-1919.Kansas City, Missouri :, 1920
 * W. P. MacLean. My Story of the 130th F.A., A.E.F. Topeka, Kansas: Boy's Chronicle, 1920
 * Evan Alexander Edwards. From Doniphan to Verdun : the official history of the 140th Infantry. Lawrence, Kansas : World Co., c1920
 * Leslie L. Bucklaw. The "Orphan Battery" and operations, 128th U.S. Field Artillery (1st Missouri F.A.) with notes on the organization of which Battery E became a part, and various commentary extracts. Cleveland, Ohio : H. M. White, 1921.

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

 * Missouri, Pre-WWII Adjutant General Enlistment Contracts, 1900-1941
 * William A. Raupp.  Report of the Adjutant General of Missouri, January 10, 1921-December 31, 1924. Jefferson, Missouri : The Hugh Stephens Press, 1925? See pp 97- (Images 100-175) Includes Missouri roster of World War I casualties for the Regular Army, Navy, Marines, National Guard and Regular Army nurses; lists of veterans for the Regular Army and National Army.

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

 * 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