Description
Mr. McAuley talks about the food they had at the prison camp.
William Archibald McAuley
William Archibald McAuley was born on February 4th,1921 in McAuley, Manitoba. He worked on the farm while going to school. After graduating, he worked at a neighbors farm for seven dollars and fifty cents a month until he joined the army on September 17th,1939 when he was eighteen years old.
Transcript
The food was about the same. They had rice. We had possibly a little bit more rice, I think we had maybe a bigger bowl of rice and we did get some fish once in a while and we'd get water buffalo meat once in a while. You know what water buffalo, they used them to plow the fields. And well, you chewed it all in and spit it out, at least you got some good out of it because you couldn't chew, you couldn't eat it. But it was, I'd say slightly better, just a little bit more, maybe greens and kelp and stuff like that, yes.