122d Signal Battalion
Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 March 2003
122d Signal Battalion Lineage
Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as a Signal Corps battalion
Organized 10 October 1916 at Fort Bliss, Texas, as the 1st Field Battalion, Signal Corps, to consist of the following companies:
Company A organized 28 May 1899 in the Philippine Islands
as Company E, Signal Corps
Redesignated 5 April 1910 as Field Company E, Signal Corps
Redesignated 11 November 1916 as Company A, 1st Field Battalion, Signal Corps
Company B organized 1 July 1904 at Benecia Barracks, California,
as Company I, Signal Corps
Redesignated 5 April 1910 as Field Company I, Signal Corps
Redesignated 11 November 1916 as Company B, 1st Field Battalion, Signal Corps
(Company C organized in May 1917 at Fort Bliss, Texas)
Reorganized and redesignated 3 August 1917 as the 1st Field Signal Battalion
Assigned 21 September 1917 to the 2d Division (later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division)
Reorganized and redesignated 23 April 1921 as the 2d Signal Company
Reorganized and redesignated 23 April 1921 as the 2d Signal Company
Reorganized and redesignated 20 June 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 122d Signal Battalion (organic elements constituted 24 May 1957 and activated 20 June 1957 in Alaska)
122d Signal Battalion Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
Philippine Insurrection: San Isidro
World War I: Aisne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918; Ile de France 1918
World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for WIRTZFELD, BELGIUM
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1950-1951
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MEUSE-ARGONNE
French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere
Belgian Fourragere 1940
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action on Elsenborn Crest
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for NAKTONG RIVER LINE
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1953