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Composition of 2d Division


WAR DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF CHIEF OF STAFF,
Washington. September 20. 1917.
MEMORANDUM FOR: The information and record of the Adjutant General

The Secretary of War directs the following composition of the 2d Regular Division for service abroad:

Major General. Commanding--Omar Bundy.
Division Headquarters:
Field and Staff (Commander and Staff to be filled in later)
Headquarters Troop
4th Machine Gun Battalion
3d Infantry Brigade:
Brigade Headquarters (Commander and Staff to be filled in later)
5th Machine Gun Battalion
9th Infantry
23d Infantry
4th Infantry Brigade:
Brigade Headquarters (Commander and Staff to be filled in later)
6th Machine Gun Battalion
5th Regiment Marines
6th Regiment Marines
2d Field Artillery Brigade:
Brigade Headquarters (Commander and Staff to be filled in later)
12th Field Artillery
15th Field Artillery
17th Field Artillery
2d Trench Mortar Battery
2d Engineers:
1st Field Signal Battalion
Trains:
2d Headquarters and Military Police
2d Ammunition Train (includes mobile ordnance repair shop)
2d Supply train
2d Sanitary train
 
Headquarters Field Hospital Section
Field Hospital Company No.1
Field Hospital Company No. 15
Field Hospital Company No. 16
Field Hospital Company No. 20
Headquarters Ambulance Section
Ambulance Company No. 1
Ambulance Company No. 15
Ambulance Company No. 16
Ambulance Company No. 20
2d Engineer Train
Base Hospital No. 23
TASKER H. BLISS,
Major General,
Chief of Staff.

Transcribed from:
UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WORLD WAR, 1917-1919, VOLUME 3
Training and Use of American Units With the British and French
 
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