The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . The Dinner at Scottish Rite out. The Pittsburgh party—a parade and banquet May Harrisburg dinner, May 9th. Back on the job. Appendix 279 MAPS The Trip Across France 56 The Territory Around Chaumont and Toul 73 From the Marne to the Vesle 165 St. Mihiel, Saizerais and Surrounding Territory 190 The Argonne 210 Note—The First Telegraph Battalion was recruited from The Bell Telephone Company ofPennsylvania and its Associated Companies, The Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph and TelephoneCompany and T
The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . The Dinner at Scottish Rite out. The Pittsburgh party—a parade and banquet May Harrisburg dinner, May 9th. Back on the job. Appendix 279 MAPS The Trip Across France 56 The Territory Around Chaumont and Toul 73 From the Marne to the Vesle 165 St. Mihiel, Saizerais and Surrounding Territory 190 The Argonne 210 Note—The First Telegraph Battalion was recruited from The Bell Telephone Company ofPennsylvania and its Associated Companies, The Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph and TelephoneCompany and The Diamond State Telephone Company. Whenever in these pages, therefore, TheBell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania is mentioned, it should be understood to include theAssociated Companies. In similar manner, when the Battalion is referred to as the Pennsylvania Battalion, it is to beunderstood that some of its members were from Southern New Jersey (the territory of The Delawareand Atlantic Company) and some were from Delaware (the territory of The Diamond State Company).. Chapter I From Civies to Khaki IT WAS the month of July, 1918. The enemy had penetrated to the day brought increasing evidence of a further rush by the the night of the fourteenth the enemy artillery became extremelyactive. Shells began to drop like hail on the hill back of the Battalion. Whatwere the orders to be? Was there to be further retreat—or was the FirstCorps, to which these Bell boys were attached, finally to be given a chance tojoin in a test of strength with the oncoming Germans? Schedules had been prepared for either eventuality. In case of retreat,E Company was to salvage everything possible and destroy all materialsleft. D Company was to hurry to a new location and establish communica-tion for the Corps. Should orders be for resistance and counter-attack, themen in the exchanges were to refuse all telephone service to those not on apreferred list. Every human effort wa
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