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| | PVT. JOHN H. McMULLEN
Serial No. 2,017,823
Dryden, Mich.
Mac, as he was called, was also a member of the 310th Ammunition Train before coming to Battery B. He was detailed to duty at Guer in preparation of supplies for the Battery to take into the lines. On the train, in its movement to the front, Mac was one of the detail assigned to the kitchen a K. P. It was part of his duty to bring us our chow, which had to be carried in a can, and this was shoved into each carload of men. They wanted us to have something hot, so a kitchen was rigged up on one of the cars to the rear, the smoke coming through the roof.
At Tautecourt, in the camouflaged kitchen, he was discharging his duty preparing the little there was to eat for the boys, when a large shell exploded very close to him, making a hole 20 feet in diameter and 9 feet deep, but this did not scare Mac from his post.
Military glory had no shine on it for McMullen. |