The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-16
MEDAL WINNERS OF
SIGNAL CORPS HERE
Hollandia Arrives With Men
Who Kept Up Communi-
cations on Field.
MOSTLY NEW WORKERS
Soldiers Who Fought for Brit
ain and Had Trouble
Aboard Ship Get In.
MOSTLY NEW WORKERS

The men who kept in working order
tho wires from front line trench to divi-
sion headquarters, no matter how often
the Germans smashed them. came home
yesterday on the transport Hollandia.
The II officers and Az enlisted men OF
the 1920 Field Battalion Signal Corps
who arrived are part OF the Twenty-sev-
enth Division. and were formerly MEM
bers of tho old First New York and Sec
ond Brooklyn Signal Corps.
After going UP the main channel to
point Off the Battery the Hollanda
turned around and went back to Quar-
antine amid roars OF protest from the
men OF the Twenty aided and
abetted by the protests of casual COM
pany 991, consisting of ono officer and
143 enlisted men. The latter are New
Workers also being Twenty-seventh and
Seventy-seventh Division men and also
old Sixty ninth Regiment men.
After reaching Quarantine the trans
port turned around and went up the east
channel to Pier S. Bush Stores, Brook
Ign. That satisfied the men.
The police boat Patrol which has done
so much welcoming lately that her bot
tom is said to be in need of repairs, was
on hand with n huge cargo OF relatives,
cigarettes. candy, American flags and
Street Cleaning Department bandsmen.
High Record in Decorations.
Distinguished Service crosses, British
military crosses and military medals
were thick on the breasts OF the men
lining the sides, proving that although
tho primary business OF the signal corps
is not fighting the danger is as great as
that faced by the doughboys. In fact. 1t
was stated that the battalion stood high
est in percentage of decorations OF any
unit of the division.
Mai Arthur l.. Howe, formerly New
York lawyer, who lives at 3l5 East 175th
street, was in charge of the battalion.
All aboard said that the voyage home
was somewhat less eventful than the
trip over for on that occasion three Ger
man submarines attacked the Poca-
hontas, formerly the German steamship
Princess Irene. on which they travelled.
rhe u. S. S. Huntington and eight other
destroyers got the first two U-boats by
shell FIRE and the last by a depth bomb
! the men said.
/ When withdrawn from action in No
vember at the Selle River two-hfths of
the men had been either killed, wounded
or gassed. The British conferred on
Lieut.. Col. William L. Hallahan, the chief
signal officer. the' Distinguished Service
| order. col. Hallahan was a New York
| city broker.
Another d. s. c. man was Private
1 Frank Thomas of Company c, who lives
at $40 West 19lst street. He volunteered
to get a message through to regimental
headquarters on the first day of the ad-
vance on the Hindenburs line. lie got
he -. 4
killed two German scouts on the way.
/ Private William r. Shugg of Ruther-
| ford, y. j., who was clerk on the Erie
Railroad before the war took command
| of company when two lieutenants and
/ the top sergeant were killed and another
/ lieutenant wounded. He led them over
the top and through hard fighting for a
night and a day, winning the -. S. c.
and recommendation for a commission.
Won ID. 3. c. by Hanging On.
The same decoration was awarded 10
Kenneth Mccain of 33 Beekman place
| tor hanging on seventy-two hours at the
wire centre connecting three companies
after being wounded and gassed. He
was In a hospital for six weeks
Others decorated were Capt. George S
Galloway of Company Il. Sergeant John
r. Meals and Corporal Howard +. De
Rum of Company c, the last named de-
ceased
on hoard the Hollandia also was the
l0lst Mobile Hospital Corps, commanded
by Major X. G. Dufficy. consisting OF
eight officers and forty-three men.
Two hundred and seventy dsgruntlet
men who had served in the British army
during the war arrived yesterday in th'
city on board the British transport Toloa
All the men, who We're American cti-
zens, Britishers resident in the United
States, and West Indian negroes who
formerly lived in The Bronx were in civ