The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . the town on theafternoon of the eighteenth. The men had spent two days on the road butthey set to work immediately, and before letting up for the night ten thousandfeet of wire had been placed and two switchboards and thirty telephones wereworking. Sergeant Mumford with Bailey and Gaghagen handled the switch-board work and Sergeant Russell with his linemen put up the circuits. Thebridge across the Marne at this point had been blown up by the British in 152 ON THE MARNE *53 1914 to check the advance of the on-coming
The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . the town on theafternoon of the eighteenth. The men had spent two days on the road butthey set to work immediately, and before letting up for the night ten thousandfeet of wire had been placed and two switchboards and thirty telephones wereworking. Sergeant Mumford with Bailey and Gaghagen handled the switch-board work and Sergeant Russell with his linemen put up the circuits. Thebridge across the Marne at this point had been blown up by the British in 152 ON THE MARNE *53 1914 to check the advance of the on-coming Boche and it was necessary forRussell and his men to borrow boats in order to string the lines across theriver. The following morning Corps officers began to arrive. Before eveningmore than sixteen miles of wire, all of which was attached to fixtures on thetops of the steep-roofed houses, had been strung and twenty additional tele-phones installed. On the evening of the nineteenth the remainder of Com-pany E arrived and commenced work on the installation of a large switch-. La Ferte sous Jouarre board and an electric lighting plant. The following day Sergeant Adamsstrung a line to General Liggetts chateau. Lynch organized the switchboardoperating and with Cavanagh and MacRonald listed the various Frenchcircuit routings. Hannam was dispatched meanwhile with a few men fromthe 322nd Battalion to operate an office at Meaux, the rear echelon of theSecond Division. Most of the billets in France were stables or muddy fields. But here wasan exception. These were located in a small suburb to the east, La PetiteVentuil, consisting mainly of summer homes of Parisians. Danley describesthem: 154 THE FIRST BATTALION
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