American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 36th Division

Thirty-Sixth 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:Panther/Lone Star Division
 * Army War College (U.S.). Historical Section. Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 229
 * 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 
 * 36th Division. 8/23/1917-6/18/1919 NAID 10447681
 * Native Americans Serving with the Thirty-Sixth Division NARA NAID 34393980

Troops Drawn
Texas and Oklahoma. National Guard

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Bowie. Texas.7.18.1917-8.15.1919

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 31, 1918-Aug. 12, 1918
 * Date sailed for home: May 23. 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 p.24
 * Blanc Mont (Meuse-Argonne Champagne) Operations of the 2D and 36th Divisions with the Fourth French Army in Champagne in October 1918.
 * Summaries of Operations - 36th Division
 * 36th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Sixth Division
71st Infantry Brigade 72nd Infantry Brigade 61st Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 141st Infantry
 * 142nd Infantry
 * 132nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 143rd Infantry
 * 144th Infantry
 * 133rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 131st Field Artillery
 * 132nd Field Artillery
 * 133rd Field Artillery
 * 111th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 131st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 111th Engineers
 * 111th Field Signal Battalion
 * 111th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 111th Ammunition Train
 * 111th Supply Train
 * 111th  Engineer Train
 * 111th   Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals141-144

Unit Histories

 * Ben H. Chastaine. Story of the 36th: the Experiences of the 36th Division in the World War. Oklahoma City:Harlow Publishing Company, 1920.
 * Bruce L. Brager. The Texas 36th Division: a history. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 2002.
 * Rex F. Harlow. Trail of the 61st. A History of the 61st Field Artillery Brigade During the World War. 1917-1919. Oklahoma City: Harlow Publishing Co., 1919
 * C. H. Barnes. History of the 142 infantry of the thirty-sixth division, October 15, 1917, to June 17, 1919 : including a sketch of first Oklahoma infantry and seventh Texas infantry. S. l. : Blackwell Job Print. Co., 1922

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.
 * 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


 * 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
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918

 Texas
 * Texas, World War I Records, 1917-1920

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