Wagoner Gifford Brown US Army WW1

The 91st Infantry Division was organized on August 5, 1917, at Camp Lewis, Washington. The states that the men came from were California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and the Territory of Alaska. There were four regiments in the division, the 361st, 362nd, 363rd and the 364th. The 346th, 347th and 348th Machine Gun Battalions were part of the division. The Division’s patch is the number 91 on a green pine tree and it was nicknamed the “Pine Tree Division” or the “Wild Bill Division”. Eventually, it was nicknamed “The Powder River Division”. The pine tree symbolizes that most of the troops came from the North West. It participated in its first operation in September 1918 as part of the St. Mihiel Offensive and its second operation was part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Twelve days before the end of World War I, the division, drove the Germans east across the Escaut River.