American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 30th Division

Thirtieth Division - National Guard

 * Nickname: Old Hickory Division
 * 30th Division Insignia
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 167

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.''
 * Native Americans Serving with the Thirtieth Division NARA NAID 34393347 1of 2
 * Native Americans Serving with the Thirtieth Division NARA NAID 34393316

Troops Drawn

 * National Guard. Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Sevier, South Carolina. 7.1917-4.1919

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 14,1918-June 24, 1918
 * Date sailed for home: March 18, 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 pp 19-20
 * Summaries of Operations 30th Division

Military Units attached to the Thirtieth Division
 59th Infantry Brigade   60th Infantry Brigade   55th Field Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 117th Infantry
 * 118th Infantry
 * 114th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 119th Infantry
 * 120th Infantry
 * 115th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 113th Field Artillery
 * 114th Field Artillery
 * 115th Field Artillery
 * 105th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 113th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 105th Engineers
 * 105th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 105th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 105th Ammunition Train
 * 105th Supply Train
 * 105th  Engineer Train
 * 105th   Sanitary Train-Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 117-120

Unit Histories

 * Thomas B. Collins, et. al., comp. With the 114th Machine Gun Battalion, 1917-1919. S.l.: s.n., 1920
 * Reese T. Amis History of the 114th Field Artillery.
 * Willard P. Sullivan. The History of the 105th Regiment of Engineers... New York:George H. Doran CO., 1919

Soldier Naturalization

 * 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

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