The 152d Depot Brigade was a training and receiving formation of the

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during

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, and was successively commanded by

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George W. Read, John E. Woodward, George H. Estes, George D. Moore, Edward Sigerfoos, and William Jones Nicholson.

History

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authorized

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Franklin Bell to organize the 152d Depot Brigade, an element of the 77th Division (National Army). The brigade was later detached and placed directly under

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, as an independent unit. The depot brigade filled two purposes: one was to act as a receiving unit for men sent to camps by local draft boards.; the other was to train replacements for the

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(AEF).

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wrote the musical revue "

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", including the song " Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" while assigned to a unit of the 152d Depot Brigade at Camp Upton in 1918.

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. Depot brigades were organized into numbered battalions (1st Battalion, 2d Battalion, etc.), which in turn were organized into numbered companies. The major U.S. depot brigades organized for World War I, which remained active until after post-war demobilization included: 151st (

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); 152d (Camp Upton); 153d (

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); 154th (

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); 155th (

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); 156th ( Camp Jackson); 157th (

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); 158th ( Camp Sherman); 159th (

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); 160th (

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); 161st ( Camp Grant); 162d ( Camp Pike); 163d (

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); 164th (

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); 165th (

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); 166th ( Camp Lewis); and 167th ( Camp McClellan).

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:152 Depot Brigade 1917 establishments in New York (state) 1919 disestablishments in New York (state) Military units and formations established in 1917 Military units and formations disestablished in 1919 United States Army depot brigades of World War I

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