The Japanese Attack Shamshuipo
Heroes Remember
The Japanese Attack Shamshuipo
The only thing I can remember is we were in the Shamshuipo
barracks at the time and I had always been taught by my father
that if indeed I ever got into circumstances where there was any
bombing or shelling taking place to find the nearest hole,
nearest hole, nearest shell hole, that I could find because,
"Unlike lightning," as he said, "there won't be another shell
land in that hole. So you get into that hole." Which I did,
together with one other chap, and prior, prior to doing that, I
should say that prior, in making my way to the shell hole, a bomb
was dropped and I was hit in the arm and two places in my leg, so
I was, I was wounded.
Interviewer: Once the initial attack had taken place, were you
taken for medical care?
Yes, once I was picked up. It was pretty confusing you know
because everybody realized they had to get out of the barracks
and of course they, some, they brought in some trucks and people
started getting up on the trucks and very few people, if any
thers, knew that this other chap and I were, had been wounded,
and so they were sort of saying, "goodbye" and, "you'll be in
another truck" sort of thing, you know. But that didn't happen
and they all left the Shamshuipo barracks and I wouldn't be
altogether sure where they all went at that particular time but
certainly it was, or someone realized that we were in trouble in
that shell hole and came and got us and took us to the Bowen Road
Hospital in Hong Kong.
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