Source Information

New York State Military Museum
Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., New Jersey Soldiers Serving in the New York National Guard, 1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
Original data: New York State National Guard. New Jersey Soldiers Serving in the NY National Guard, 1918. New York State Military Museum, Albany, New York.

About New York, U.S., New Jersey Soldiers Serving in the New York National Guard, 1918

These records summarize the service of New Jersey residents who died while serving in New York National Guard units during World War I. Some were killed in action or died from wounds and others of disease or following an accident. The half-page abstracts in this database provide a number of details, including the following:

  • name
  • residence
  • enlistment details (date, place)
  • place of birth
  • age at time of enlistment
  • units served with
  • grades/ranks (with dates)
  • overseas service
  • engagements fought in
  • death (date, cause)
  • person notified of death (with address and relationship)