Sewing machine repairman
Heroes Remember
Sewing machine repairman
Transcript
Well, we started out at about 7:00 or
7:30 in the morning and by the time
we marched down to the shipyards
from the Camp 5D, I guess the march
was about a half hour to...
something like that.
We never got back till about six thirty,
quarter to seven, something like that we
got back to camp so you're figuring
pretty on well twelve hours.
Finally because of my eyes they
wouldn't let me go back to the shipyard again
and the last stretch of time we were
in the shipyard, they put me out, they
put a call in for someone that could fix
Singer sewing machines and
so I put my hand up. I said,
I can fix Singer...
I never seen a Singer, well you know
my mother had one I guess.
So what they did, they would take me
around and you'd have to repair, we
had to sew these Japanese uniforms,
that was the other thing, you know,
we had no clothes of our own so
Japanese uniforms,
they came up to here.
You had to extend the legs,
we had to extend the
sleeves on the jackets and
all this sort of thing.
So every camp had somebody that
could sew so they could repair
the holes and patches and
so on and somebody that could put a sole on
your shoe or make a shoe that would fit,
good enough so that you could go to
work and that sort of thing. SO anyway,
I had a couple of guards and they
took me around to some of
these other camps and
get me to look at, get me to look at
their sewing machine to make sure
they were working or whatever....
Description
Mr. Agerbak talks about being a repairman for Singer sewing machine while in camp.
Borge Agerbak
Borge Agerbak was born in Odense, Denmark and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1927 to a small town in southern Manitoba called Pilot Mound. Mr. Agerback worked on the farm until war broke out in 1939. Along with his two brothers, he decided to join the Winnipeg Grenadiers.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- July 17, 2013
- Duration:
- 1:46
- Person Interviewed:
- Borge Agerbak
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- Japan
- Battle/Campaign:
- Hong Kong
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