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Description
Mr. Mullin earns his extra stripes, and gets his revenge on a British corporal who treated him like a colonial. He then goes off with an advance party to the Ardennes salient.
Bob Mullin
Avant de s'enrôler, M. Mullin a travaillé aux États-Unis comme chauffeur pour une société productrice de tabac. Il a quitté son emploi de chauffeur et est revenu au Canada pour s'enrôler. Il s'est joint à la 20e Batterie de campagne de l'Artillerie le 4 septembre 1937, à Newcastle, N.-B. Il a passé quatre ans en Grande-Bretagne pour recevoir son instruction avant de participer aux combats. Il a combattu au Saillant des Ardennes aux côtés de la 6e Division aéroportée britannique, mais il prétend que la participation de cette dernière ne figure pas dans les dossiers car les Américains ne voulaient pas qu'elle soit connue. En Allemagne, une femme vient le chercher dans la rue pour aider sa fille à mettre son enfant au monde. Au moment de cette entrevue, M. Mullin vivait à St. John, N.-B.
Transcription
And it came my morning for orderly sergeant and I picked up all the sick from different regiments in the camp, and we went down to the MO's office, and the MO's office was locked. And I looked at my watch, we were there at 6:30, and it was then 6:30. So I waited a few minutes and I broke off the men, and I told them to go to breakfast, and I went back to the office. So in about a half an hour the MO rang. "I want the camp orderly sergeant," I said, "Speaking." "Where's your sick parade? " I said, "My sick parade were there, your MO's office wasn't open." So I said, "I returned them to the breakfast and I'll be down to arrest your corporal." So I grabbed two guys out of the lineup and we went down and placed the corporal under arrest, took him down, put him in the guardroom. So when I put him in the guardroom, I said, "Remember me? " "Oh," he said, "vaguely." I said, "I'm the guy that you made stand at attention to talk to you." And I said, "I made myself a promise then I would take those three stripes off your, or those two stripes of your arm, and tomorrow morning I'm going to do just that." So we did. So that I think is about the only time I ever threw my rank around. In fact, I used to keep a tunic with no stripes on it so I could go to the gunner's mess. I was more at home in the gunner's mess than I was in the sergeant's mess. But anyhow, time went on. I went in with an advanced party down to the Ardennes salient, and a few days later, I went into action on the day after Christmas.