The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . against handling any ammunition or othermaterial lying around the battlefields, particularly because of Boche , in spite of these warnings, large quantities of souvenirs found their wayinto camp and heavy mails were dispatched to the States. While workingon the line to Breny, Eicholtz kicked aside the unexploded cap of a shellwhile planting a lance pole. The cap exploded and he was hurried to thehospital to have numerous bits of steel extracted from his shins. At last there was a Sunday with nothing to do
The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . against handling any ammunition or othermaterial lying around the battlefields, particularly because of Boche , in spite of these warnings, large quantities of souvenirs found their wayinto camp and heavy mails were dispatched to the States. While workingon the line to Breny, Eicholtz kicked aside the unexploded cap of a shellwhile planting a lance pole. The cap exploded and he was hurried to thehospital to have numerous bits of steel extracted from his shins. At last there was a Sunday with nothing to do but rest, wander over thenearby battlefields and write letters home. Here is one of the letters: This being the first Sunday afternoon in weeks that we havenot been tearing wildly on, I went to the east of the town and satdown under a tree on the slope to read. To the north stretched avalley through which the Boches have recently fled, away in thedistance the hills to the north and northeast showing the scars ofmany shells. To the west was our little town with remarkably few. On the Line to Breny OX TO THE JESLE 183 scars showing from that angle, the church tower, leaning slightly,with the Boche Red Cross flag still hanging out. It was a lovelyday and one would not have known there was a war except for anoccasional buzz high up in the air as one of the big planes whirledby or a distant muffled thud from the artillery. We have our messin the garden of a place which the Boche must have used for theirofficers, and it is in pretty good condition. Our officers use thelibrary of the house for their mess and it is rilled with Japanesebooks and ornaments. The owner of this place was once connectedwith the Japanese consuls office at Marseilles and he had some stun-ning stuff in his house. The people are coming back into these villages, old and young,and they seem to be gradually recovering some of their effects fromvarious piles of debris. I never saw so many box mattresses. TheBoches c
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