Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-03

5 at Three-Mile Pond it is especial
ly timely.
A part of the regular equipment
issued to the Headquarters Com
pany and with which it's members
must be thoroughly familiar in its
work OF maintaining communica-
tlons between Division headquar-
tiers and Regimental headquarters is
the twelve line switchboard which
with It's cable and distribution
frame, made by the members of the
company, is shown. A field tele-
phone such as is used with this
switchboard is also shown and it is
interesting to note that the Head
quarters Company and Co. F., 103rd
Infantry which will do police duty
at the Community Park on Monday
Will maintain communication
through such an installation in or
der to prevent any accidents on the
road from the Augusta Belfast
highway to the shore of the lake,
where the park Is situated. BY
means of these telephones they will
be able to direct traffic with q max
imum Of efficiency.
In addition the field radio ret,
set, containing both a receiving and
sending circuit all compactly built
into a single case Is shown, togeth-
er with tools and other equipment.
A series of pictures, taken by a
former member of the company, at
Fort Ethan Allen, VT, in the sum-
mer of 1924 and at Camp Keyes in
the summer of 1925, show various
members of the company and some
OF the activities in which they are
engaged during the two weeks tour
OF duty. The pictures are of suffi-
Gent size SO that the faces of many
of the Augusta boys may be made
out without difficulty. These pic
lures are from small films which
were finished and enlarged at the
Augusta Flower Shop.
In addition to the above mention
ed part of the exhibit there are sew
eral interesting trophies of the late
World War, consisting principally
of captured German ordnance.
There is snipers rifle with IA
notches on the butt, a grim notation
| who were destroyed by its fire be-
fore the rifieman was finally killed
or captured; giant $50 millimetre
| shell casing standing about four
| rect high, German trench mortar
she'll and a German. bomb shell and
bomb thrower give some idea of the
| enormous charges Of explosives
which were used in the war, while
a saw-toothed bayonet and a nom
commissioned officers sword show
what the allied soldiers had to COM
bat in the way of infantry weapons.
A Uhlan's helmet, intended to be
worn by those famous troops on the
anticipated triumphant entry into
Paris, but never put to its intended
use, and a steel battle helmet with
a bullet hole through it, indicating
that its owner was badly wounded
or killed, are among the other tro-
phies in the window.
The members of the Headquarters
Company are now busily engaged in
preparation for the opening of the
tour Of duty on July "a at Camp
Keyes and they want to have a full
| complement of men at that time.
/ Under the direction of Master Ser
geant Elliott C. Goodwin, who re-
! Gently returned to the company af-
| ter taking a four months course in
! communications at Fort Benning,
| Ga, they plan the most absorbing
program that the company has ever
| undertaken. Communication in all
its branches is a particular duty of
the company which has a Transport
tation section, an intelligence Sec
ton, a radio section, a wire section,
visual signal section and a head
quarters detail, and there is an OPP
portunity for man to specialize in
some particular work which will be
of worth to him not only in his
army career but perhaps in civil
life as well, and while he is learn
ing he receives pay beside getting
a two weeks vacation in the sum-
mer with all expenses and a good
salary in the bargain Capt. Almon
B. Sullivan at the Holmes Swift
Company, or Lieut.. Leslie Hall at
Fifeld Brothers will be glad to tell
any prospective recruits about army
life and particularly ife in the
HpadouarterS COmpanV