Sickness And Death

A lot of the guys were sick. A lot of the guys were sick. A lot of the guys were dying. We took as high as seven a day out there to bury them. I was on them guard duty of... on the burial party. We took as high as seven a day out of there. Our doctor said there wasn't anything that they could do, at least when I got dysentery and I don't know what kind of pills they give us. There were some kind of pills we had but I don't know what the hell they were.

Mr Lynch tells of the death toll and the sickness such as dysentery and malaria.that inflicted the soldiers.

Wilbert Lynch

Wilbert Lynch was born in Portage, Manitoba on April 6th 1923 and was raised on a farm with two brothers and three sisters. He left home when he was 13 years old and worked for five dollars a month plus room and board at a few local farms. Three days after turning seventeen he joined the army and trained on the Bren gun in Camp Shilo and became a member of the 18th Manitoba Reconnaissance Battalion.