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

Training
 Troops Drawn 
 * New England, N. G. troops organized at Boston plus N.A. quota from Camp Devens

 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.
 * French training area: Neufehateau Coetquidan.
 * Date entered line: Feb. 6, 1917. Toul Sector.
 * Days in Quiet (148) and Active (45) sectors. Total 193
 * Date sailed for home: March 27, 1919.

Major operations

 * Aisne-Marne Offensive.
 * St. Mihiel.
 * Meuse-Argonne.
 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * 26th Division - Summaries of Operations
 * 26th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Twenty-Sixth Division
 51st Infantry Brigade   102nd Infantry   52nd Infantry Brigade   51st First Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 101st Infantry
 * 102nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 103rd Infantry
 * 104th Infantry
 * 103rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 101st Field Artillery
 * 102nd Field Artillery
 * 103rd Field Artillery
 * 101st Trench Mortar Battery
 * 101st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 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
 * Michael E. Shay. The Yankee Division in the First World War: in the Highest Tradition. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
 * James J. Cooke. The Rainbow Division in the Great War, 1917-1919. Westport, Ct.: Praeger, 1994.
 * 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.
 * Daniel Walter Strickland. Connecticut Fights; the story of the 102d regiment. New Have, Conn.: Quinnipiack Press, 1930
 * 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

Casualties and Replacements

 * Battle Deaths: 2,135
 * Wounded: 11,325
 * Replacements: 14,411
 * Strengths 13 Nov 1918: 20,709

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

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