American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 81st Division

Eighty-First Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Wildcat/Stonewall Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931

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

 * North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Puerto Rico

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Jackson.

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: Aug. 15-Aug. 25, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: June 1, 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * Meuse-Argonne.
 * Summaries of Operations - 81st Division

Military Units attached to the Eighty-First Division
161st Infantry Brigade 162nd Infantry Brigade 156th  Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 321st Infantry
 * 322nd Infantry
 * 317th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 323rd Infantry
 * 324th Infantry
 * 318th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 316th  Field Artillery
 * 317th Field Artillery
 * 318th Field Artillery
 * 306th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 316th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 306th  Engineers
 * 306th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 306th  Train HQ and Military Police
 * 306th Ammunition Train
 * 306th Supply Train
 * 306th Engineer Train
 * 306th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 321-324

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

The following naturalizations occurred in the in the state which provided soldiers to this division. Some of the naturalizations may have taken place at the training camp and others elsewhere. Soldiers in these collections may have also served in other divisions.


 * 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 Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
 * United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939
 * North Carolina, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
 * Florida, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919

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