The Final Battle, Part 1
Heroes Remember
We knew if they ever landed on
the Island we were going to
be in for a tough fight and
it wasn't going to last too long,
you could see that.
Noon hour, the 18th they moved two
of our sections out of pillbox two and
three up on the lower slopes of
Jardine's lookout and we all ended up
back in pillbox one right at the
top of the gap and it would be about,
oh I guess seven o'clock.
It was getting dark and one of our
company runners came up and we
were told we had to go and
guard the Wong Chong reservoir.
And I guess about ten o'clock it would be,
the runner came up and
Ed Mitchell had to go down to company
headquarters and we went down to see
Bowman and he came back up and
he said we're leaving one section
here and the other two sections were
moving up to Stanley Gap,
we're going to meet up with A-Company
of the Winnipeg Grenadiers,
they were going up to Mount Butler.
And we had a Chinese guide.
And we wandered the slopes and
at daybreak the next morning we
were on the lower slopes of
Jardine's lookout and no Chinese guide,
he had disappeared and we never knew
any part of that country at all.
And as it got lighter,
Tippy McCorrester from Portage, La Prairie
whispered that there are shrubs
down there moving.
Now that part of the country,
the Chinese even dug up the roots for
firewood and when you see it today,
it's unbelievable the amount
of vegetation and tree growth but
in that time it was very little in
those hills and Mitchell,
he pointed it out to young Mitchell and
Mitchell called for fire power and
everybody let go,
I don't know whether we got them
or not but what I will say here
when I had to fire and knowing
I was shooting at a human,
I wet my pants.
Shooting rabbits when I was a kid
was a cinch and I was a good shot but
I had never aimed at another
human being before and
I knew I was going to be.
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