Basic and Advanced Training
Heroes Remember
Transcript
I took my basic training in Fredericton,
New Brunswick and my advanced training
in Utopia, that's around the
Saint John area somewhere.
Basic training is more or less discipline -
learning how to salute and how to march,
things like that and obeying orders and
more or less the basics of discipline stuff.
And advanced training that's when you
get into handling weapons and
so forth and being taught,
I was with an infantry actually so you're
taught camouflage and how to fight,
bayonet fighting and stuff like that.
And at the time the infantry had a
small weapon, a PIAT they called it
as an anti-tank weapon which wasn't
too effective so the artillery turned over
an artillery piece which was called
a six-pounder and they were given
courses at the time and I took the
first course in Canada on this
six-pounder as an anti-tank man.
Description
Mr. Buote gives a synopsis of his training on his way to becoming an anti-tank man, training on the Army's new 6-pounder.
Peter Buote
Peter Buote was born in Rustico, Prince Edward Island in 1924, the youngest of 7 children. His early years were spent in an orphanage. After moving to Moncton, New Brunswick he left school at age 14 and went to work in the Minto coal mines. At 16, he went to work at a dry-cleaners. Despite being of age, Mr. Buote was turned down for Naval service because he looked too young. He later joined the Regina Rifles and was involved in the D-Day landing. He served as a sniper in Europe. Mr. Buote also served in Korea, and after returning to Canada, operated a dry-cleaning business.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 1:25
- Person Interviewed:
- Peter Buote
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- Regina Rifles
- Occupation:
- Sniper
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