The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . officials and personnel of The BellTelephone Company of Pennsylvania. And it was not only the first Reserve unit to be organized. It was thefirst Reserve unit to be ordered overseas; the first complete Signal unit toarrive in France; the first technical unit to be attached to General Head-quarters, American Expeditionary Forces; and, when the First AmericanArmy Corps was formed, it was again the first technical unit designated as apart of the Corps. Mr. Kinnard called it the Battalion of hand picked men. From theme
The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . officials and personnel of The BellTelephone Company of Pennsylvania. And it was not only the first Reserve unit to be organized. It was thefirst Reserve unit to be ordered overseas; the first complete Signal unit toarrive in France; the first technical unit to be attached to General Head-quarters, American Expeditionary Forces; and, when the First AmericanArmy Corps was formed, it was again the first technical unit designated as apart of the Corps. Mr. Kinnard called it the Battalion of hand picked men. From themethod of selection, the reader may judge as to the propriety of the term!The Battalion consisted of ten officers and some two hundred and fifteenenlisted men. As further evidence of the quality of its personnel, it should benoted that from these two hundred and twenty-five men there developed, priorto the close of the war, two lieutenant colonels, five majors, three captains,eight first lieutenants, nine second lieutenants, and more than a score of non-commissioned Chapter II So/diers in the Maki?i? AS SOON as the officers were selected, correspondence courses in infantry1J\ drill regulations were started, with weekly assignments and subsequentJL JL examinations. When the noncommissioned officers had been chosen,classes were organized and drills held on two evenings each week. By theend of April the Companies were organized and drills were held every Saturdayafternoon in halls rented for the purpose. Although by this time war had been declared, the Battalion was still sub-ject to the Act of Congress which provided merely that the members were toattend camp for fifteen days each summer, and that at this camp they wouldbe organized into companies; no uniforms or other equipment were to be fur-nished the men until they arrived at camp. But a state of war now existedwhich made it necessary that the Signal Reserve Battalions be definitelyorganized and fitted out. It was th
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