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Identifier: firstbattalionst00scha
Title: The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Schauble, Peter Lambert. [from old catalog]
Subjects: United States. Army. Signal corps. 406th telegraph battalion. [from old catalog] World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Philadelphia
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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rs which had been written aboard the steamer had to be rewrittenbecause of the rigidness of the rules. It seemed to most of the menthat about all they were al-lowed to say was, Some-where in France. I am hereand well. Good-bye. Dickson had been a dili-gent student of the Frenchlanguage, both at MonmouthPark and on the way over.Hardly had he landed at St.Nazaire than helookedaroundfor an opportunity to try itout. He saw a Frenchmanand approached him. Verycarefully, in his very best French, he asked a question. The Frenchman looked at him in a puzzledway and then said: If youd say that in English, Id understand you a d sight better. An old friend turned up at camp on the second evening—Lieutenant Reppof Company D. The erstwhile Supervisor of Buildings was arrayed in aforeign made uniform with Sam Browne belt, boots and spurs, and it seemedthat service in France had quickly transformed old Bill from a civilian ofquiet tastes to a military tailors model. Lieutenant Repp had already gone
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German Prisoners—One of the First Sights at St. Nazaire 52 THE FIRST BATTALION over much of the territory in which the Battalion would work, and he, withLieutenant Glaspey, had determined in general the routes which would befollowed, the type of construction to be used and where material for thework might be obtained. In studying telephone needs, these officers hadcovered by automobile some sixteen hundred miles, passing through more thansix hundred towns. Lieutenant Repp suggested that the Majors of the twoBattalions go to Paris to report to Colonel Russell so that they might obtaindefinite ideas on the work which they might be expected to do. This sugges-tion was immediately followed. On their return, they too were splendidlydecked out with boots and spurs and Sam Browne belts. Drills were started as soon as the men had become established in the campand, as a very pleasant bathing beach was located not far distant, a hike tothis beach and a swim in the Bay of Biscay became a part
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