Organized 18 September 1837 at Cleveland, Ohio as the Cleveland Grays, an independent volunteer militia company

Mustered into Federal service 14 April 1861 as Company E, 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment; mustered out of Federal service 1 August 1861

Reorganized 13 August 1861 as Company A, 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment and concurrently mustered into Federal service; mustered out of Federal service 15 August 1864 and resumed state status as an independent volunteer militia company

Converted, expanded, and redesignated 21 April 1898 in the Ohio National Guard as the 1st Battalion of Engineers

Converted and redesignated 25 June 1898 as the 3d Battalion, 10th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Mustered into Federal service 7 July 1898 at Columbus; mustered out of Federal service 23 March 1899 at Augusta, Georgia and reorganized in the Ohio National Guard at Cleveland as the 1st Battalion of Engineers

Mustered into Federal service 19 June 1916 at Camp Willis, Ohio

Expanded, reorganized and redesignated 24 April 1917 as the 1st Engineer Regiment  

Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917

Reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1917 as the 112th Engineer Regiment, and assigned to the 37th Division

Demobilized 17 April 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio

Reconstituted 21 July 1920 in the Ohio National Guard as the 1st Engineer Regiment and reorganized 1920-1921 in northeastern Ohio

Redesignated 1 July 1921 as the 112th Engineer Regiment, an element of the 37th Division; Headquarters Federally recognized 23 February 1922 at Cleveland

Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at home stations

Regiment broken up 16 January 1942 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:

Regiment (less 2nd Battalion) as the 112th Engineer Battalion

2nd Battalion as the 191st Engineer Light Ponton Company and relieved from assignment to the 37th Division; inactivated 7 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer,
New Jersey

112th Engineer Battalion reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1942 as the 112th Engineer Combat Regiment (less 2d Battalion); 2d Battalion organized with personnel from the Michigan National Guard

Regiment broken up 19 August 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:

Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1121st Engineer Combat Group; inactivated 4 February 1946   at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey 

1st Battalion as the 112th Engineer Combat Battalion; inactivated 27 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

(2nd Battalion as the 254th Engineer Combat Battalion - hereafter separate lineage)

Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1121st Engineer Combat Group, 112th Engineer Combat Battalion, and 191st Engineer Light Ponton Company consolidated 10 June 1946; consolidated unit designated as the 112th Engineer Combat Battalion, an element of the 37th Infantry Division

Reorganized and Federally recognized 4 December 1946 with Headquarters at Cleveland

Ordered into active Federal service 15 January 1952 at Cleveland

Redesignated 20 May 1953 as the 112th Engineer Battalion

(112th Engineer Battalion [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 25 January 1954 with Headquarters at Cleveland)

Released from active Federal service 15 June 1954 and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from the 112th Engineer Battalion (NGUS)

Relieved 15 February 1968 from assignment to the 37th Infantry Division

Location of Headquarters changed 1 March 1985 to Brook Park

Assigned 1 September 1999 to the 38th Infantry Division

Ordered into active Federal service 30 January 2003 at home stations; released from active Federal service 28 January 2005 and reverted to state control     

Relieved 1 September 2007 from assignment to the 38th Infantry Division

HOME AREA:  Cleveland and vicinity

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                Civil War
                Bull Run
                Shiloh
                Murfreesborough
                Chickamauga
                Atlanta
                Kentucky 1862
                Tennessee 1863
                Tennessee 1864

                World War I
                Ypres-Lys
                Meuse-Argonne
                Lorraine 1918

                World War II
                Normandy (with arrowhead)
                Northern France
                Rhineland
                Ardennes-Alsace
                Central Europe

 

Headquarters Company (Brook Park), additionally entitled to:

                World War I
                Alsace 1918

                World War II
                Northern Solomons
                Luzon (with arrowhead)

 

DECORATIONS

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered NORMANDY LANDING

Headquarters Company (Brook Park), additionally entitled to:

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered MEUSE- ARGONNE

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: