Series 6131

Division of Archives and Records Service Mexican border campaign service cards

Dates: i 1916-1917.

1 microfilm reel

These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.

Scope and Content

This reel is a copy of cards which provide brief data on members of the Utah National Guard who served in the Mexican border campaign against Pancho Villa. The cards provide the individual's name; rank; enlistment date, place, and troop; and his discharge date or muster out date and location. The original cards were interfiled to form part of the 3x5 card group in series 85268, MILITARY SERVICE CARDS.

The cards were created by the Military Records Section of the Utah State Historical Society Archives as part of a comprehensive effort to compile data on all Utah veterans. Much of the data on the cards were obtained from muster rolls of the units involved.

Images Available

This series is available on microfilm.

Reproduction and Use

These records are available for reproduction and use.

Finding Aids

Indexes: Name index at beginning of reel.

Related Records

Mexican border campaign records from the National Guard, Series 6305, contains muster rolls from which information on these cards was derived.

Adjutant General's records from the National Guard, Series 6308, documents personnel actions for some of these same individuals.

Mexican Border Campaign muster rolls from the National Guard, Series 10319, contain much of the original enlistment data

Military service cards from the Division of Archives and Records Service, Series 85268, has these same cards microfilmed interfiled with other veteran data in the subseries of 3x5 cards.

Indexing Terms

Utah--National Guard.

United States. Army--History--Punitive Expedition into Mexico, 1916.

Utah--Military history.

REEL	DESCRIPTION
1	Name Index - Units from Utah