Unknown Destination
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Unknown Destination
At Valcartier one day we were issued with tropical uniforms
and told, “You are going abroad.
The regiment is going overseas, you have a week's leave
to go home and say good bye to your folks.”
And when we returned, we received brand new tropical uniforms
and that came as a surprise
because we thought we were going to England.
And when we got these tropical uniforms we thought then well,
perhaps we're going to the desert to join the British 8th Army.
But when we boarded the train,
the train went to the west instead of to Halifax.
And when we asked our officers,
“Where are they going?”
They said, “Well, we don't know but we'll open
our sealed orders when we get at sea.”
So we went to Vancouver, boarded our troop ship,
the ship left and in the second or third day at sea
we were informed we were going to Hong Kong.
Well we knew nothing about Hong Kong.
And we were just amazed at this modern,
beautiful Chinese city - Kowloon on the mainland
and Victoria on the island.
And so, we immediately went into
the Sham Shui Po barracks with the British Army.
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