American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 41st Division

Forty-First Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Sunset Division
 * First Depot Division
 * 41st Division. 1/8/1918-2/3/1919
 * 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 First Image 269

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


 * Native Americans Serving with the Forty - First Division NARA NAID34394143

Troops Drawn
Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, and District of Columbia.

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Fremont, California. 7.18.1917- 9.1919

Military Units attached to the Forty-First Division
81st  Infantry Brigade 82nd Infantry Brigade 66th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops  Trains
 * 161st  Infantry
 * 162nd Infantry
 * 147th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 163rd Infantry - 2nd Montana Infantry
 * 164th Infantry
 * 148th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 146th Field Artillery
 * 147th Field Artillery
 * 148th Field Artillery
 * 116th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 146th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 116th Engineers
 * 116th Field Signal Battalion
 * Headquarters Troop
 * 116th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 116th Ammunition Train
 * 116th Supply Train
 * 116th  Engineer Train
 * 116th   Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 161-164

Unit Histories

 * Record of Service of 147th Field Artillery in France to 11th November 1918. (1919).
 * Paul M. Davis and Hubert Kenneth Clay. History of Battery C, 148th Field Artillery,American Expeditionary Forces. Colorado Springs: Out West,1919
 * In commemoration of the Second Regiment Montana Infantry going to the front.

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
 * Cath Trindle. Camp Fremont naturalization index, 1918-1919. San Mateo, California : San Mateo County Genealogical Society, c1999.

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, 1917-1919
 * 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
 * World War I United States Military Records, 1917 to 1918

Related Websites

 * 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