My legs gave out on me
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My legs gave out on me
I was old enough to join the Army. My mother had come back
from the hospital, and my father too. So, I was only about, what,
16, no 17 I guess, near 18. I asked her if she’d let me to go
join the Army, and I said you could get the money from me,
and I’d be working, make some money. So, she let me go,
and I joined the Army and from then on I was in the Army.
I was in Fredericton for a month, for just, you know, just
getting into the Army. Then they gave me basic training.
They sent me to Edmunston. I was in Edmunston for two months,
and from there they gave me advanced training, and they sent
me to Nova Scotia, Aldershot, Nova Scotia. I was there for two
months. Then, after two months, they sent me overseas.
And I, we landed in Liverpool, and from Liverpool we went to
camp, staging camp they called it, a place called Whitley,
Whitley Camp, and we stayed there, we trained. That’s all we done
is train, you know, for front. And then, after a while my legs
gave out on me. So when they did, they asked me if I wanted
to drive. I said, "Sure," so they sent me to Ordinance Corp,
which is Borden, England. They gave me ten days course,
and then, from then on, I started driving, driving all over the
place in England, different ports. Go after the vehicle, take
them in an Ordinance Depot and they’d waterproof them to use
for invasion. And that’s, that’s about all I did.
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