Hawaii, World War I Service Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
World War I Service Records for Hawaii WWI veterans who served in 1917-1919. Congress ordered that a service record for each person serving in 1917-1918 be created and provided to the Adjutant General of each state. That record consisted of a card that contained information abstracted from the service record of each veteran. Clerks in the War Department and Navy Department executed the work. Digital capture of the original records are located at the Hawaii State Archives.

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 * Susan Goss Johnston " World War I Statement of Service Cards" NGS Magazine 43 (July-September 2017): 42-45

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:

Service • 3

How Do I Search This Collection?
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 * Name of ancestor
 * If served in WWI
 * Place of induction

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The following articles will help you research your family in the state of Hawaii.
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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Hawaii, World War I service records, 1917-1919
 * Hawaii, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918
 * Ralph S. Kuykendall. Hawaii in the World War.Honolulu, Hawaii : Historical Commission, 1928. FHL 996.9 B4h v.2

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * World War I Draft Registration Cards
 * United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919
 * United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940
 * United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Ralph S. Kuykendall with the assistance of Mrs. Lorin Tarr Gill. Hawaii in the world war. v.2 Honolulu, Hawaii : Historical Commission, 1928
 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A.E.F : who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs, ©1920.
 * Hermine Scholz ; with accompanying chapter by Richard J. Sommers,  World War I manuscripts : the World War I survey Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania : U.S. Army Military History Institute, 1986

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