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| | PVT. HERMAN J. MYERS
Serial No. 2,052,694
Coldwater, Mich.
Myers was a member of the Ammunition Train and had the experience of being detailed immediately on his assignment to the Battery as guard over the ammunition dump. Standing guard is every private’s duty but a most unpopular and unsought work in the army. The original Battery was very much under its numerical strength and the men were training hard. It was not usual to put a new man on guard, but the exigency of the situation demanded it, so Myers with others from the 310th Ammunition Train served as guards.
At Farm Vaurot he was detailed as a camouflage man under Sergt. Reddaway, which was his duty until the last position was taken at Tautecourt, where he acted its runner. Runners during an engagement have the most dangerous and responsible duty of all in the line.
Private Myers was peculiarly fitted for this, as his sense of location and direction was highly developed, and with the stoicism of an Indian, as well as his path following instincts, he discharged his missions.
Of a congenial disposition among his comrades, he fulfilled the requirements of a good soldier. |