The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . detail to proceedimmediately by train to Chaumont to install a telephone system for GeneralPershings Headquarters, soon to be moved from Paris to that place. Menfrom Company E were assigned to the task, and Lieutenant Gauss, with hisdetail, set off, after Lieutenant Meigs had obtained for them supplies andcoffee money, this latter to enable them to purchase hot coffee from the Frenchcanteens at various stops long the line. At Orleans there was an opportunityto see the famous Cathedral, with the scaffolding for repa
The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . detail to proceedimmediately by train to Chaumont to install a telephone system for GeneralPershings Headquarters, soon to be moved from Paris to that place. Menfrom Company E were assigned to the task, and Lieutenant Gauss, with hisdetail, set off, after Lieutenant Meigs had obtained for them supplies andcoffee money, this latter to enable them to purchase hot coffee from the Frenchcanteens at various stops long the line. At Orleans there was an opportunityto see the famous Cathedral, with the scaffolding for repairs, abandoned whenthe workmen were called to war, still in place. During the stop at Troyes,Hackett and McAnallen wandered so far from the train that it later rolled ontoward Chaumont without them. These adventurous tourists, however,boarded another train, an express, and arrived at Chaumont ahead of the detail. Lieutenant Glaspey met the detail and it was marched through Chaumontamid the cheers of the French populace. The French barracks which were to SO THIS IS FRANCE! 53. Barracks, Base Camp No. 1, St. Nazaire be used by the Americans had not been sufficiently disinfected, and the menpitched their shelter tents in a field nearby. The ground was stony, but aftertheir two days and nights in the crowded compartments of a French coach allwere weary enough not to lose any time worrying about their rough following morning they tackled their first big job. A call from Paris sent Ryno, OBrien and Noonan, of Company D,to that city to take over and organize a telegraph office. Ryno eventuallyreturned to his company in February, 1918, but the other men, two of the besttelegraph operators in the Battalion, were officially detached from theirorganization so they might remain on duty at this most important tells his story of the early days in the Paris Office: After General Pershing and his staff moved to Chaumont, theParis office became the headquarters of the line
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