Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI)

Night patrols were essential operations but were always dangerous. Mr. Nickerson describes his first experiences on a night wire-laying patrol.

Life on the front line became almost routine for awhile. But the weather conditions were, by times, cold, snowy and windy.

Mr. Nickerson describes his first encounter with the enemy - a night attack!

The PPCLI arrive at the front line, just north of the city of Seoul. Mr. Nickerson recalls the gruesome sight that greeted them.

In November 1950, Mr. Nickerson's PPCLI Battalion sailed for Korea. It was an uncomfortable crossing.

In basic training in Calgary at the age of 16 years, Mr. Nickerson remembers the others who were in training with him as well as their non-commissioned officers and instructors.

Mr. Parker talks about readjusting to civilian life, and the advantages of the military structured life.

Mr. Parker talks about being in NW Europe when the war ended and enemy officers coming blindfolded through their line and then leaving again a short time later without blindfolds. This told him the end was finally here. He was sent to England for some repatriation duties, and then returned to New York in February 1946.

Mr. Parker talks with admiration of a Lieutenant Cutville, and a recce they went on in a tank, where they were hit by an armour-piercing shell (but escaped unscathed).

Vokes strips him down to buck private and sends him back to the ranks, but he also adds a twist to the punishment.