Heading Overseas
Heroes Remember
Heading Overseas
Transcript
I left to go overseas from Halifax with a ship,
the Awatea. It was about 1:30 in the morning.
All of a sudden the hammock started to shake
and the mast ends falling off the shelves and
Frenchmen talking so fast, that I was in with
them and I couldn't understand
what was happening. So the life alarm come
on and we had to get up to the top deck and
the lifeboats were coming out,
putting them down the side.
So then, during this we see a destroyer cut
across in front of us and it went straight
up and it was hit and it was sunk.
And that was destroyer Ingraham, 125 lives lost.
And att that time, our ship was hit by torpedo
and it put a hole in the front and we turned
around to go back to Halifax.
Description
Mr. Hislop talks about a close call on a convoy heading overseas from Halifax.
Robert Hislop
Mr. Hislop was born in Shellbrook, Saskatchewan on May 6,1921. He grew up during the depression and calls it “the hungry 30s”. In November 1941, he joined the army and was very lonely being away from home for the first time. When he arrived overseas he traveled to Aldershot by train and got his first taste of the beautiful scenery. Mr. Hislop served as a truck driver and Vickers machine gun operator during his tour in Italy. After the war Mr. Hislop was married and worked at a General Motors garage.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 1:49
- Person Interviewed:
- Robert Hislop
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- Saskatoon Light Infantry
- Rank:
- Private
- Occupation:
- Machine Gunner
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