Here is a very interesting find...and just in time for Veteran’s Day. I’ve always been interested in finding out about my great-grandpa Jim Dodge’s time in World War One. I have posted other blogs on research into his service in the past, but this gives greater insight into the time he spent overseas. Family Search has recently published the monthly muster and roster rolls from 1912 to 1939. These records are not indexed but the images are searchable by regiment. Grandpa Jim served in Company F, 9th Infantry Regiment. He enlisted on August 6, 1918 and sailed for France in late September. According to the regiment rosters, he was assigned to Company F in the 9th Infantry Regiment in November of 1918, presumably after the armistice was signed on the 11th. The regiment was stationed in Bendorf, Germany, along the banks of the Rhine River. The Regiment returned to the U.S. in July of 1919. In early August of 1919, Jim was transferred to Fort D.A. Russell in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he was discharged on the 16th of August.
Below are the monthly rosters from November 1918 to August of 1919. The first few rosters appear to have been redone in the 1930’s. In addition to the monthly regimental rosters, Family Search also has the Depot Brigade roster images available to search through. I am hoping to find Grandpa Jim in these rosters as well.
November 1918
December 1918
January 1919
February 1919
March 1919
April 1919
May 1919
June 1919
July 1919 - en route to Hoboken, New Jersey - aboard the U.S.S. Princess Matoika
August 1919
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