The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . and McKay of Company E to the front and read the letter of commenda-tion received for their action during the German raid at Seicheprey while theywere on listening post duty. After the review the Battalion marched into Neufchateau where Vancehad prepared mess. This was followed by a pistol match between pickedteams from the two Companies, E winning by a narrow margin. Thencame a ball game and when it was called off on account of rain D was sofar in the lead that all count of the score had been lost. The D men hadth
The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . and McKay of Company E to the front and read the letter of commenda-tion received for their action during the German raid at Seicheprey while theywere on listening post duty. After the review the Battalion marched into Neufchateau where Vancehad prepared mess. This was followed by a pistol match between pickedteams from the two Companies, E winning by a narrow margin. Thencame a ball game and when it was called off on account of rain D was sofar in the lead that all count of the score had been lost. The D men hadtheir revenge for the drubbing E had given them two or three weeks was plenty of African golf to satisfy all. As a matter of fact it was 146 THE FIRST BATT A LI ON. The Practice Move said that in the 406th this game reached the highest state of perfection theworld has ever known. There was an unfortunate incident connected with this reunion. As theCompanies marched down the road from the parade ground Smoke, themascot who had been with Company E since the early days at MonmouthPark, was run over and killed by a dispatch rider. There were real tearsshed as Company E buried him near a pine woods just north of Neufchateau. A number of dilapidated trucks were turned over to the Battalion at thistime. They had supposedly outlived their usefulness, but after being over-hauled by the motor men of the 406th were put to work. It is interestingto note that some of the revamped relics were still in active service with theBattalion when the Armistice was signed. When the Motor Transport Corps was organized, men from all signalunits hastened to the coast before the new organization began to function, tocollect trucks shipped to the Signal Corps. Urffer, Gruni
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