Sendai Camp

Well we found it damn cold because Sendai in Northern Japan is about the same as it would be in B.C. In fact, it would be a little colder yet because it got down to about ten below. We had a g-string and wooden clogs on our feet, that was how we were dressed. It was an incline shaft that went down and we had to march, I think it was about a mile or two. I’m not sure, I don’t remember that too well. But I know we marched there and we went underground on a cable car like. We went down and we worked underground in the mine. I think we were down about a mile. Some was on drilling and blasting and others as cleaning up and loading it into cars and it would go on up. At the start I was on drilling and blasting, and then we had a cave-in and nobody would go and help fix it. There were some of our boys who got there legs hurt pretty bad, but we had to work under there and somebody had to fix it, had to fix that cave in. So they come and asked for volunteers to do it. And me and a lad, he was from Churchill, I don’t know where he is now, Fred Wright, we volunteered to go in and shore it up and after that we were just the two of us done all the . . . we done all the timbering after that, just the two of us in the mine as it went.