American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 36th Division

Thirty-Sixth Division - National Guard
The volume will include the following for each Regular Army(RA), National Guard(NG) and National Army(NA) or Draft division:
 * Nickname:Panther/Lone Star Division
 * Army War College (U.S.). Historical Section. Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 First Image 229
 * 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 
 * 36th Division. 8/23/1917-6/18/1919 NAID 10447681
 * Native Americans Serving with the Thirty-Sixth Division NARA NAID 34393980

Troops Drawn
Texas and Oklahoma. National Guard

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Bowie. Texas.7.18.1917-8.15.1919

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 31, 1918-Aug. 12, 1918
 * Date sailed for home: May 23. 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 p.24
 * Blanc Mont (Meuse-Argonne Champagne) Operations of the 2D and 36th Divisions with the Fourth French Army in Champagne in October 1918.
 * Summaries of Operations - 36th Division
 * 36th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Thirty-Sixth Division
71st Infantry Brigade 72nd Infantry Brigade 61st Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 141st Infantry
 * 142nd Infantry
 * 132nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 143rd Infantry
 * 144th Infantry
 * 133rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 131st Field Artillery
 * 132nd Field Artillery
 * 133rd Field Artillery
 * 111th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 131st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 111th Engineers
 * 111th Field Signal Battalion
 * 111th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 111th Ammunition Train
 * 111th Supply Train
 * 111th  Engineer Train
 * 111th   Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals141-144

Unit Histories

 * Ben H. Chastaine. Story of the 36th: the Experiences of the 36th Division in the World War. Oklahoma City:Harlow Publishing Company, 1920.
 * Bruce L. Brager. The Texas 36th Division: a history. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 2002.
 * Rex F. Harlow. Trail of the 61st. A History of the 61st Field Artillery Brigade During the World War. 1917-1919. Oklahoma City: Harlow Publishing Co., 1919
 * C. H. Barnes. History of the 142 infantry of the thirty-sixth division, October 15, 1917, to June 17, 1919 : including a sketch of first Oklahoma infantry and seventh Texas infantry. S. l. : Blackwell Job Print. Co., 1922

Soldier Naturalizations

 * 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, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939
 * Texas, World War I Records, 1917-1920

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