Becoming Part of the British Forces
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Becoming Part of the British Forces
It was all volunteers, there was no conscription in
Newfoundland. Well, all the boys were going and I said I wanted
to go earlier but my parents said no, no, no, and so when I was
eighteen I decided I was going to go. So I went in 1940.
You had no choice of who or what. The Royal Navy had a recruiting office
in Saint Johns, so did the army, so did the air force.
But, in order to join the Canadian Navy we knew they were there, we knew
they existed, you’d have to go pay your own way up to Halifax or
up some place. And then if you got turned down, you had to pay
your own way home again. So everybody joined right there,
the British Forces.
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