No problem. There were so many brave men who fought there it is difficult to keep them all straight as far as names go.

I just found an amusing reference to Sgt. Maj. John Quick (Signalman), who won the Navy Cross/DSC for an ammo dash to Bouresches on 7 July 1918. According to the officer in charge of the ammo run (in a letter written by Lt. William Moore after the war), Sgt. Maj. Quick was so drunk he was passed out, and took no active part in the action other than being bodily present, but unconscious in the truck. This fact was evidently known to the men who awarded him the medals (Navy Cross/Distinguished Service Cross) he so justly undeserved.

Sgt. Maj. Quick was a very good personal friend of Col. Wendall Neville's, the most likely candidate for the officer who shot the USMC runner in Mackin's book.

Amusing, but sickening.

Jim