American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 26th Division

Twenty-Sixth Division - National Guard

 * Organized August 22, 1917, at Boston, Massachusetts
 * Nickname: Yankee Division
 * 26th Division Insignia
 * 26th Division (Wikipedia)
 * Composition of National Guard Divisions and Disposition of Former National Guard Units 1917. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918.


 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 pp.113-129; First Image 120

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


 * Eben Putnam, comp. '' Report of the Commission on Massachusetts' Part in the World War History. volume 1 Boston: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1931. FHL Digital Book. Twenty-Sixth Division pp. 71-144.


 * Massachusetts Adjutant General. Awards correspondence, 1918-1919

Training
 Troops Drawn 
 * New England, National Guard troops organized at Boston plus N.A. quota from Camp Devens
 * Maine Military Records 1700-1940 (Maine National Guard Cards, 1900-1940 DGS 5652175-5654744)
 * Rhode Island militia and national guard enlistment papers, 1890-1919
 * Vermont, National Guard, World War I, 1917-1918

 Training Camp in the United States 
 * Devens, Massachusetts
 * Roger Batchelder.  Camp Devens Boston: Small, Maynard & Company,1918
 * William J. Robinson. Forging the Sword The Story of Camp Devens New England's Army Cantonment. Concord, N.H.: The Rumford Press, 1920

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: Sept. 20, 1917-Nov. 12, 1917.
 * Date sailed for home: March 27, 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. 14-15
 * 26th Division - Summaries of Operations
 * 26th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Twenty-Sixth Division
 51st Infantry Brigade   52nd Infantry Brigade   51st First Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 101st Infantry - 9th Massachusetts Infantry; 5th Massachusetts Infantry; 6th Massachusetts Infantry
 * 102nd Infantry - 2nd Connecticut Infantry; 1st Connecticut Infantry; 6th Massachusetts Infantry; 1st Vermont Infantry
 * 102nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 103rd Infantry - 2nd Maine Infantry; 1st New Hampshire Infantry; Cos F, H, K, M, 8th Infantry
 * 104th Infantry - 2nd Massachusetts Infantry; 6th Massachusetts Infantry; 8th Massachusetts Infantry
 * 103rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 101st Field Artillery - 1st Massachusetts Field Artillery; New England Coast Artillery Units
 * 102nd Field Artillery - 2nd Massachusetts Field Artillery; New England Coast Artillery.
 * 103rd Field Artillery - Btry. A, N.H. F.A.; 3 Btrys. R.I. F.A.; 2 Btrys. Conn. F.A.; Troop M, R.I. Sq. Cav.; and detachment New England Coast Artillery.
 * 101st Trench Mortar Battery
 * 101st Machine Gun Battalion - 1st Connecticut Squadron of Cavalry;1st Vermont Infantry
 * 101st Engineers
 * 101st Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 101st Train HQ and Military Police
 * 101st Ammunition Train
 * 101st Supply Train
 * 101st Engineer Train
 * 101st Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 101-104

Unit Histories

 * Emerson Gifford Taylor.  New England in France 1917 - 1919 A History of the Twenty-Sixth Division U.S.A. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1920
 * Harry A. Benwell. History of the Yankee division.Cornhill, c1919
 * William Krumwiede. 26th Infantry Division : Yankee Division. Paducah, Kentucky : Turner Pub. Co., c2000
 * Michael E. Shay. The Yankee Division in the First World War: in the Highest Tradition. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
 * John Nelson. A brief history of the Fighting Yankee Division, A.E.F : on the battlefront, February 5, 1918-November 11, 1918.Worcester, Massachusetts : Worcester Gazette, 1919
 * Daniel Walter Strickland. Connecticut Fights; the story of the 102d regiment. New Have, Conn.: Quinnipiack Press, 1930
 * History of the 103rd Infantry,1917-1919, in Memory of those Officers, and Men of the 103rd Regiment who Gave Their Lives in France. This Story of our regiment is hereby dedicated, Colonel Frank H. Hume. Commander. Boston: H. I. Hymans, 1919.
 * James H. Fifield. ''The Regiment, History of the 104th U.S. Infantry, AEF,1917-1919. Springfield, Mass.: 104th Infantry Association, 1956.
 * R.M. Cheseldine, Ohio in the Rainbow : official story of the 166th infantry, 42nd division, in the world war Columbus, Ohio : F.J. Heer Print. Co, 1924
 * Being the narrative of Battery A of the 101st Field Artillery (formerly Battery A of Boston) : from the time of its muster into the federal service on July 25, 1917, through its 19 months of service in France, nine months of which were in action at the front, until its demobilization Camp Devens, Mass., on April 29, 1919.Cambridge, Massachusetts : Brattle Press, 1919
 * Edward D. Sirois, William McGinnis and John J. Hogan. Smashing through "the World War" with fighting Battery C: 102nd F.A., 26th Division, "Yankee Division," 1917-1918-1919. Salem, Mass.: The Meek Press, 1919
 * Philip S. Wainwright. History of the 101st Machine Gun Battalion. Hartford,Conn.: The 101st Machine Gun Battalion Association, 1922
 * Arrthur C. Havlin. The History of Company A, 102nd Machine Gun Battalion, Twenty-Sixth Division, AEF. Boston: Harry C. Rodd and Associates, 1928.
 * Michael E. Shay. A Grateful Heart: the history of a World War I Field Hospital. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 2002. This is a history of the 103rd Field Hospital Company.
 * Corporal Ernest E. La Branche. An American battery in France. Worcester, Massachusetts :, c1923

Soldier Naturalization

 * 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 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, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939
 * Connecticut, Military Census Questionnaires, 1917
 * Maine, World War I Draft Registration Index, 1917-1919
 * Maine, State Archives, World War I (WWI) Grave Cards, 1914-1950
 * 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