162d Depot Brigade

Brigade of the United States Army February 2017 February 2017 162d Depot Brigade 1917–1919 May 1919 United States 1912 Army Depot Training and receiving Brigade Camp Pike, Arkansas World War I Wars Brig. Gen. Benjamin A. Poore Brig. Gen. Frederick B. Shaw The 162d Depot Brigade was a training and receiving formation of the United States Army during World War I.Directory of Troops, 1949, p. 1299. History Secretary of War Newton Baker authorized Major General Samuel Sturgis to organize the 162d Depot Brigade, an element of the 87th Division.Wilson, 1998, p. 60. It was later detached and placed directly under Camp Pike, Arkansas, as an independent unit.Organizations and Activities of the War Department, 1949, p. 1277.Territorial Departments, Tactical Divisions Organized in 1918, and Posts, Camps, and Stations, 1949, pp. 843-45Directory of Troops, 1949, p. 1277. The brigade filled two purposes: one was to train replacements for the American Expeditionary Forces; the other was to act as a receiving unit for men sent to camps by local draft boards.WD Cir 23, 1918, p. 7.Wilson, 1998, p. 76n32. Commanded by Brigadier General Benjamin A. Poore beginning in August 1917, during most of 1918 the brigade was commanded by Brigadier General Frederick B. Shaw.Cullum George W. George Washington Cullum Robinson Wirt 1920 Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy VI-A https://books.google.com/books?id=3xXqw4I1EZ0C&pg=PA427 Saginaw, MI Seemann & Peters 423, 427 Google BooksApril 16, 1918 Colonel Shaw To Be Transferred https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61337764/shaw-transferred/ Arkansas Gazette Little Rock, AR 3 Newspapers.com Purpose The role of depot brigades was to receive and organize recruits, provide them with uniforms, equipment and initial military training, and then send them to France to fight on the front lines. The depot brigades also received soldiers returning home at the end of the war and completed their out processing and discharges. Depot brigades were often organized, reorganized, and inactivated as requirements to receive and train troops rose and fell, and later ebbed and flowed during post-war demobilization.U.S. Army Adjutant General, Training Circular No. 23, Training regulations for Depot Brigades, September 1918, Table of Contents Depot brigades were organized into numbered battalions (1st Battalion, 2d Battalion, etc.), which in turn were organized into numbered companies.Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co., Memorial to the Employees of the Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co. Who Served at Home and Abroad in the Great World War, 1920, pages 42, 47. Harold A. Chalford is listed as a member of 31st Company, 8th Battalion, 152d Depot Brigade. Ernest O. Sandstrom is named as a member of 9th Company, 3d Battalion, 152d Depot Brigade The major U.S. depot brigades organized for World War I, which remained active until after post-war demobilization included: 151st (Camp Devens); 152d (Camp Upton); 153d (Camp Dix); 154th (Camp Meade); 155th (Camp Lee); 156th (Camp Jackson); 157th (Camp Gordon); 158th (Camp Sherman); 159th (Camp Taylor); 160th (Camp Custer); 161st (Camp Grant); 162d (Camp Pike); 163d (Camp Dodge); 164th (Camp Funston); 165th (Camp Travis); 166th (Camp Lewis); and 167th (Camp McClellan).December 1, 1917 List of General Officers and Their Commands https://books.google.com/books?id=lVQ-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA674 Army and Navy Register Washington, DC 674 See also List of formations of the United States Army during World War I Timeline of World War I United States home front during World War I Notes 30em References 30em Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War 3, Part 1: Center of Military History Publication No. 23-3—Zone of the Interior: Organizations and Activities of the War Department U.S. Dept. of the Army Wash., DC 1988 1st. pub. GPO:1949 Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War 3, Part 2: Center of Military History Publication No. 23-4—Zone of the Interior: Territorial Departments, Tactical Divisions Organized in 1918, and Posts, Camps, and Stations U.S. Dept. of the Army Wash., DC 1988 1st. pub. GPO:1949 Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War 3, Part 3: Center of Military History Publication No. 23-5—Directory of Troops U.S. Dept. of the Army Wash., DC 1988 1st. pub. GPO:1949 Wilson John B. Center of Military History Publication No. 60-14-1—Maneuver and Firepower: The Evolution of Divisions and Separate Brigades U.S. Dept. of the Army Army Lineage Series Wash., DC 1998 U.S. War Dept. War Plans Div. A.W.C. 1918 Trng. Circ. No. 23—Training Regulations for Depot Brigades U.S. War Dept. U.S. War Dept. Document No. 859 Wash., DC Further reading Barnes Alexander F. Belmonte Peter L. 2022 United States Army Depot Brigades in World War I Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company 978-1-4766-8205-1 1310246266 34132361M Arkansas Modern history United States Category:1917 establishments in Arkansas Category:1919 disestablishments in Arkansas Category:American organizations established in 1917 Category:Military history of North Little Rock, Arkansas Category:Military units and formations established in 1917 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1919 Category:United States Army depot brigades of World War I Category:United States home front during World War I