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BG John J. CartyBG John J. Carty, Signal Reserve, served duringWorld War I as Director of Wire Communications forthe Allied Expeditionary Forces. He received theDistinguished Service Medal. xciiSGT Albert H. Cockayne died in 1900 during thePhilippine Insurrection when he and an assistantattempted, without escort, to repair a telegraph linecut by insurgents. xciiiCrystal Avenue commemorates the 1948 production, here at FortMonmouth, of the first synthetically produced large quartz crystals.The crystals were used in the manufacturing of electroniccomponents, and made the U.S. largely independent of foreignimports for this critical mineral.CPL Howard P. De Rum, 102nd Field Signal Battalion, died in actionnear Ronssoy, France on September 29, 1918. He posthumouslyreceived the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism inaction. General Orders Number 7, dated May 7, 1956, designated DeRum Avenue. xcivEcho Avenue is located between Tindall and Cockayne Avenues andruns parallel to Todd Avenue.MAJ Hamilton H. T. Glessner fought in World War I and served asSignal Officer in the Panama Canal Department. He died in the CanalZone on January 15, 1937.First Sergeant Alexander Gosselin, 2nd Field Signal Battalion,received the Distinguished Service Cross xcv on December 4, 1918 forheroism during the Meuse-Argonne offensive.As a lieutenant, MG Adolphus W. Greely led the 1881-1884 SignalCorps Meteorological Expedition to the Arctic. As Chief Signal Officerfrom 1887-1906, Greely oversaw, during the Spanish-American War,the installation and operation of telegraph communications throughoutPuerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippine Archipelago. He received theCongressional Medal of Honor on his 91st birthday, March 27, 1935. xcviHeliograph Street is named for the heliograph, an apparatus fortelegraphing by means of the sun's rays flashed from a mirror.The heliport is located off Wallington Avenue in the northeast cornerof Greely Field.25/26 .
CPL Hildreth, 4th Field Signal Battalion, was wounded during WorldWar I in the Battle of the Marne. Having received first aid, he returnedto the field only to die in hand-to-hand combat. xcviiCOL Jack Irwin enlisted in the Ohio National Guard on June 19, 1916.Having served in the Signal Corps from July 1931 to April 1936, Irwindied in action during World War II. General Order 42, November 30,1945, designated Irwin Avenue.PVT Morgan D. Lane was the Signal Corps' first Medal of Honor winner,having merited the award for capturing a Confederate Flag from theGunboat Nansemond, near Jetersville, Virginia.LT James B. Lockwood, until his death, was second in command ofGreely's 1881-1884 expedition to the Arctic. Lockwood Island, whichhe discovered in 1882, was then the Nation's northernmost outpost. xcviiiCPT John A. Malterer was noted for his contributions to thedevelopment of Signal Corps radio procedure and practice. He wasserving as chief of the Signal School's Radio Division when he died in1927. xcix General Orders Number 11, dated April 13, 1943, designatedMalterer Avenue.Messenger Avenue was dedicated to all the messengers of the SignalCorps who sacrificed life and limb to “get the message through.”Moonshot Drive runs from Malterer Avenue to Murphy Drive.LTC William H. Murphy, a pioneer in aircraft radio, died in actionduring World War II in the Western Pacific area. Camp Murphy, Florida,site of the Signal Corps Aircraft Warning School, also memorializedhim. c General Order 28, July 3, 1942, designated Murphy Drive.BG Albert J. Myer is noted for the invention of a military visualsignaling system (the "wig-wag"). He was father of the Signal Corpsand its first Chief Signal Officer, serving in that capacity from 1860-1863 and again from 1866-1880. He previously served, from 1854-1860, as assistant surgeon in the Regular Army.SGT John J. Nealis’s lengthy and distinguished military careerincluded service in Europe in the 102nd Field Signal Battalion fromMay 1918 to March 1919. He received the British Military Medal, theDistinguished Service Cross, and the Purple Heart and Oak-leafCluster. General Orders Number 6, dated May 7, 1956, designatedNealis Avenue. ciLandmarks and Place Names at Fort Monmouth
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