American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 27th Division

Twenty-Seventh Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Empire (New York) Division
 * 27th Division Insignia
 * Twenty-Seventh Infantry Division History
 * Composition of National Guard Divisions and Disposition of Former National Guard Units 1917. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918.


 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 Pages 130-139. (images 137-146)

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


 * Borrowed Soldiers: The American 27th and 30th Divisions and the British Army on the Ypres Front, August-September 1918.''
 * Records of the 27th Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, (World War I), 1917-1919. National Archives Microfilm Publication M819, 60 rolls
 * Reports of Americans with the British Expeditionary Forces Who Were Killed or Hospitalized, 1918 - 1919
 * New York World War I Dead A.E.F. National Archives Catalog Images NAID 34390682 Collection indexed on FamilySearch

Training
 Troops Drawn 
 * Sixth Division, National Guard of New York.
 * New York records of the State National Guard, 1906-1954

 Training Camp in the United States 
 * Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 7, 1918-July 12, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: Feb. 27,1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces pp. 16-17.
 * 27th Division, Summary of Operations in the World War. American Battle Monuments Commission. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1944
 * 27th Division - Summaries of Operations
 * 27th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Twenty-Seventh Division
 53rd Infantry Brigade   54th Infantry Brigade   53rd Field Artillery Brigade  Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 105th Infantry
 * 106th Infantry
 * 105th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 107th Infantry
 * 108th Infantry
 * 106th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 104th Field Artillery
 * 105th Field Artillery
 * 106th Field Artillery
 * 102nd Trench Mortar Battery
 * 104th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 102nd Engineers
 * 102nd Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 102nd Train HQ and Military Police
 * 102nd Ammunition Train
 * 102nd Supply Train
 * 102nd Engineer Train
 * 102nd  Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 105-108

Unit Histories

 * John F. O'Ryan. The Story of the 27th Division. Vol. 1 New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co.,1921.
 * John F. O'Ryan. The Story of the 27th Division. Vol. 2 New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co.,1921.
 * Stanton Whitney.  Squadron A in the Great War, 1917-1918, including a narrative of the 105th M.G. Battalion. New York:Squadron A Association, 1923.
 * Gerald F. Jacobson. History of the 107th Infantry U.S.A. New York City: Seventh Regiment Armory, 1920
 * Our book : "Company A" 102 Ammunition Train S. l.: C.M. Bard, 1919

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

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

Related Family Search Historical Record Collections

 * New York Records of the State National Guard, 1906-1954
 * United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
 * United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 19117-1919
 * United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940
 * 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

Related Websites

 * New York World War One Units State Military Museum
 * Roll of Honor State Military Museum
 * National Guard World War I New York State Archives

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