American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 8th Division

Eighth Division - Regular Army

Pathfinder Division

Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931}} pages 106-11 (Images 113-118) FamilySearch Digital Library

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

National Archives Catalog

Training

Troops Drawn

Regular Army

Training Camp in the United States

Overseas Service

Date Landed in France: October 8 - November 9, 1918
Returned to the United States: December 25, 1918 - August 31,1919

Major Operations

Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918 Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920

Military Units attached to the Eighth Division

15th Infantry Brigade

12th Infantry
62nd Infantry
23rd Machine Gun Battalion

16th Infantry Brigade

8th Infantry
13th Infantry
24th Machine Gun Battalion

8th Field Artillery Brigade

2nd Field Artillery
81st Field Artillery
83rd Field Artillery
8th Trench Mortar Battery

Divisional Troops

22nd Machine Gun Battalion
319th Engineers
320th Field Signal battalion
HQ Troops

Trains

88th Train HQ and Military Police
8th Ammunition Train
8th Supply Train
319 th Engineer Train
8th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 11,31,32,43

Unit Histories

12th Infantry Twelfth U.S. Infantry,1798-1919.

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
Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1918–1919 Camp Fremont
Cath Trindle. Camp Fremont naturalization index, 1918-1919. San Mateo, California : San Mateo County Genealogical Society, c1999. DGS 5484008

FamilySearch Resources

FamilySearch Catalog

Willis Rowland Skillman. The A. E. F: who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1920 FamilySearch Digital Library
American armies and battlefields in Europe : a history, guide, and reference book. Washington, D. C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1938
United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919. 17 volumes. Washington: D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1988. FS Library 973 M2usa; Volumes 1-3 Digital images v. 1. Organization of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 2. Policy-forming documents of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 3. Training and use of American Units with the British and French
Robert Forrest Wilson; Benedict Crowell, Demobilization. Our Industrial and Military Demobilization After the Armistice. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale university Press, 1921. FamilySearch Digital Library