. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... ephones in Chateau Thierryand the building and maintenance of lines to 1st and 3rd Corpsheadquarters. August 9th moved Headquarters and CompanyE to Chateau-Thierry. August 9th and 12th engaged in sur-veying and laying out contemplated toll line iout(^s from Cha-teau-Thierry north to Fare-en-Tardenois and Coulongs. Partof plan involved using abandoned German pole liiu^s in thisterritory and French lead along railioad fiom Chateau-Thierryto Armentieres. August 12th and 18tli consumed in moving entire Bat-ta
. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... ephones in Chateau Thierryand the building and maintenance of lines to 1st and 3rd Corpsheadquarters. August 9th moved Headquarters and CompanyE to Chateau-Thierry. August 9th and 12th engaged in sur-veying and laying out contemplated toll line iout(^s from Cha-teau-Thierry north to Fare-en-Tardenois and Coulongs. Partof plan involved using abandoned German pole liiu^s in thisterritory and French lead along railioad fiom Chateau-Thierryto Armentieres. August 12th and 18tli consumed in moving entire Bat-talion overland by motor transportation from Chateau-Thierryto Neufchateau as per par. 1, S. O. 32, Hq. 1st Army. CompanyD upon arrival was sent direct to Colombey-les-Belles. Au-gust 14th to 17th detachment of six men Company E en-gaged in maintenance work Neufchateau. August 15tli moved llcachiuartci-s and F/ Company toVaucouleurs. August 17th to August 28tli CoMipauy ??[)?? engaged itimaking- switchboard installalion at Artillei-y I lead(|uai1 ers. 148 :\rEMORIES OF THE 411TH. Xeiifchateau, an additional section of switcliboard at Colom-bey-les-Belles and switehliOard for ^Meteorological Bnrean atlatter place and snrveying-, staking and constructing- a 16 AvireRepp lead from Toul to Saizerais, a distance of kilometers. This lead Avas built on private right-of-wayfrom No. 150 to 200 yards from highway, poles placed 132 feet,storm-guyed every 12 poles, double crossarms at all storm-guypoles, test pole placed in center of line, poles graded to uni-form length of 5% meters, 3 meters being used at all railroadsand road crossings where possible to obtain, poles set 4 feet inground. Extremely difficult digging was experienced on thisjob, formation being a very heavy shale rock, necessary toblast about one-third of holes. August 17th to August 31st E Company engaged inmaking switchboard installations at Void and Ligny—one ad-ditional section of 50 line board being
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