American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 80th Division

Eightieth Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Blue Ridge Division
 * Division established August 27th, 1917.
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 335

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

Troops Drawn

 * Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Lee, Virginia. 7.18.1917 - 6.28.1921 - Petersburg

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 23, 1918-June 1, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: May 17. 1919.

Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 pp32-33
 * Summaries of Operations 80th Division
 * 80th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Eightieth Division
159th Infantry Brigade 160th Infantry Brigade 155th  Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 317th Infantry
 * 318th Infantry
 * 313th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 319th Infantry
 * 320th Infantry
 * 315th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 313th  Field Artillery
 * 314th Field Artillery
 * 315th Field Artillery
 * 305th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 314th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 305th  Engineers
 * 305th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 305th  Train HQ and Military Police
 * 305th Ammunition Train
 * 305th Supply Train
 * 305th Engineer Train
 * 305th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 317-320

Unit Histories

 * A History of the 313th Field Artillery, U.S.A. New York,New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1920
 * History of the 318th Infantry Regiment of the 80th Division,1917-1919. Richmond,Virginia: William Byrd Press, 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

FamilySearch Resources
 FamilySearch Catalog 
 * Arthur Kyle Davis, editor. Virginia military organizations in the World War : with supplement of distinguished service. Richmond, Virginia : Virginia War History Commission, 1927. FS Library 975.5 M2vo Virginia in the 80th Division pp 239-333

 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 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

 * 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