Word: signalled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of the Signal Reserve Corps at the University will commence Monday when a meeting for all men interested in this branch of the service will be held in the Cruft Laboratory at 7.30 o'clock. Captain C. E. Russell of the United States Signal Corps, who has been detailed by the Eastern Department to recruit a reserve battalion of the Signal Corps, will speak and explain in full the plans made for the corps at the University. It is planned to have one course of classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, especially for members of the University...
...enlist from the University in the Signal Corps, Captain Russell intends to form a company and hold regular drill. In connection with these plans an official statement has been made from the office of the R. O. T. C. at the University that members of the R. O. T. C. who are enlisted or enlist in the Signal Corps may remain in the R. O. T. C. until the Signal Corps is called out for active Federal service. When the Corps is called out the members will leave for some training camp outside of Cambridge, where they will go into...
Since there will be a shortage of men in this department of the army, it is extremely likely that members of the new corps who show special aptitude to the work will receive a noncommissioned rating soon after the corps goes into camp. In the regular Signal Corps there are three officers to five privates...
Captain Russell has been active in establishing units at several New England colleges. Large groups have started work at Tufts and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and at Dartmouth a company of 50 men have started the regular signal work course and in addition are drilling regularly. Captain Russell, who has general charge of the new corps, apparently the only one yet organized in the country, has had 31 months of actual fighting, having seen service both at Peking during the Boxer Rebellion and in the Philippines, being therefore especially fitted for the work of organizing a signal reserve corps...
...Upon the Signal Corps falls the duty of the speedy dissemination of military intelligence or information. The movement of troops, the forwarding of supplies, in fact, all orders are transmitted over the Signal lines of information. It is also a duty of the signal corps to collect military information, and in the present war, the recording of the pictorial history of war is a function of this corps. An English officer, writing to the London Times, states: 'I am very much surprised to see in the press so little mention of the splendid work of the signal companies. They...