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Sgt John T. Mc Hugh drove a milk truck for H. P. Hood & Sons.

He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts, on 18 June 1942.

In the 1930s and early 40s there was a group of Woburn young men who played on the "Shamrock Football Team / Shamrock Athletic Club". They played their last game on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked, and shortly thereafter the team disbanded so that the young men could serve in World War II.

Seven members of that team gave their lives serving our country. It is in honor of those seven brave men that the Shamrock Memorial Elementary School was named. Those seven men, whose pictures hang in the school's front lobby, include S/Sgt. John F. Davoren and Sgt. John T. McHugh, both buried at Margraten. Another team member was Sgt McHugh's younger brother, 2nd Lt Vincent B. McHugh of the 388th Bomb Group, who was killed in 1943.