American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 3rd Division

Third Division - Regular Army

 * Division Nickname: Marne Division
 * Third Infantry Division - NARA Administrative History Note
 * Third Infantry Division (Wikipedia)


 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 Pages 21-41 (images 28-48)

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

Training
 Troops Drawn  "...includes Regular Army troops stationed at Camps Greene,Forrest,Shelby,Stanley,Stuart and Travis, and Forts Bliss, Clark,Douglas,Leavenworth,and Washington Barracks.." Land Forces. Order of Battle p. 47


 *  Training Camp in the United States
 * Where trained in U.S.: Camp Greene, North Carolina

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: Dec 20, 1918-May 12,19l8
 * Date Sailed for home: Aug. 14, 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgiun and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 pp. 8-11; Errata, p III
 * 3rd Division Summary of Operations

Military Units attached to the Third Division
5th Infantry Brigade 6th Infantry Brigade 3rd Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops HQ Troop
 * 4th Infantry
 * 7th Infantry
 * 8th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 30th Infantry
 * 38th Infantry
 * 9th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 10th Field Artillery
 * 18th Field Artillery
 * 76th Field Artillery
 * 3rd Trench Mortar Battery
 * 7th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 6th Engineers
 * 5th Signal Battalion
 * Trains
 * 3rd Train HQ and Military Police
 * 3rd Ammunition Train
 * 3rd Supply Train
 * 6th Engineer Train
 * 3rd Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals:5,7,26,27)

Unit Histories

 * Frederick v. Hemenway. History of the Third Division, United States Army in the World War for the Period December 1, 1917 to January 1, 1919.

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

Naturalizations may have occurred in the in the state which provided soldiers to this division. Some of the naturalizations may have taken place at the training camp or other courts.
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921 Training Camps

Family History Library Holdings

 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A. E. F: who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1920
 * American armies and battlefields in Europe : a history, guide, and reference book. Washington, D. C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1938
 * ''United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919.’’ 17 volumes. Washington: D.C.:  Center of Military History, United States Army, 1988. FHL 973 M2usa; Volumes 1-3 Digital images v. 1. Organization of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 2. Policy-forming documents of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 3. Training and use of American Units with the British and French
 * Robert Forrest Wilson; Benedict Crowell, Demobilization. Our Industrial and Military Demobilization After the Armistice. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale university Press, 1921.

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * 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, 19117-1919
 * 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

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

Sources:
 * William E. Moore and James C. Russell. U.S. Official Pictures of the World War. Washington,D.C.: Pictorial Bureau, 1920
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931
 * Leonard L. Lerwill. The Personnel Replacement System in the United States Army. department of the Army, August, 1954