 Organized 12 May 1918 in the Coast Defenses of Boston (Massachusetts) with headquarters at Fort Strong, Massachusetts.The regiment sailed via Halifax, Nova Scotia, to England then crossed the English Channel to Le Havre, France then on to an Organization and Training Center in the vicinity of Angers, France in 1918 when the Armistice with Germany ending World War I was signed.Returned to the continental US and demobilized 6 March 1919 at Camp Devens, Massachusetts (now Fort Devens).