American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 83rd Division

Eighty-Third Division - National Army

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

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

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft) Ohio and Pennsylvania

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Sherman, Ohio. 6.21.1917-1921

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Third Division
165th Infantry Brigade 166th Infantry Brigade 158th  Field Artillery Brigade 8322nd  Field Artillery Divisional Troops Trains
 * 329th Infantry
 * 330th Infantry
 * 323rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 331st Infantry
 * 332nd Infantry
 * 324th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 323rd Field Artillery
 * 324th Field Artillery
 * 308th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 322nd  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 308th  Engineers
 * 308th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 308th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 308th Ammunition Train
 * 308th Supply Train
 * 308th Engineer Train
 * 308th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 329-332)

Unit Histories

 * Carl A Shem. History of Battery E, 323rd Field Artillery. Cleveland,Ohio: the Press of Ward and Shaw Co., 1921
 * T.Q. Ashburn. History of the 324th Field Artillery United States Army. New York:George H. Doran Co.,1919
 * R.La Rue Cober, ed.The Trail of Battery D,Three Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Heavy Field Artillery,American Expeditionary Forces. Marietta,Ohio,Printed by the Hyde brothers,1919

Soldier Naturalizations

 * U.S. District Court. Southern Division. Dayton. Military petition for naturalization, 1918-1919
 * U.S. District Court, Southern District. Columbus. Military petitions for naturalization, 1918-1919

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

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

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