331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . 1 Page 354 —BATTERY F 53111 Field Artillery,. B. C. Detail It was a cold dreary afternoon in January. Sgt. Merrill blew his whistle vigor-ously at the bottom of the stairs. Everybody in the recreation room. A hun-dred pairs of hobnails rattled down the stairs. Tenshum. Uncle Bill Weston stalked in. Taking a few final puffs at thebig meershaum he started to explain the situation. The battery was to be dividedinto three parts; the Special detail, the Cannoneers and the Drivers. Each manwas assigned to one of the sections. Thus was our B. C.
331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . 1 Page 354 —BATTERY F 53111 Field Artillery,. B. C. Detail It was a cold dreary afternoon in January. Sgt. Merrill blew his whistle vigor-ously at the bottom of the stairs. Everybody in the recreation room. A hun-dred pairs of hobnails rattled down the stairs. Tenshum. Uncle Bill Weston stalked in. Taking a few final puffs at thebig meershaum he started to explain the situation. The battery was to be dividedinto three parts; the Special detail, the Cannoneers and the Drivers. Each manwas assigned to one of the sections. Thus was our B. C. detail founded. Before this organization of the battery we had had some signal drill. We hadlearned the semaphore, using our arms for flags, until we could tell the other fellowwhat we thought of him at a safe distance. Now came the buzzer, and its is similiar to a telegraph ticker, but the code almost got our goats. Everyletter has a song of its own they told us. Lt. Cole helped us out by putting anempty sugar bowl on the buzzer to make more volume to so called songs. Thissame code is u
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