Limitations and Loyalty

Well, I think in those days, because the war was on we were treated very well. There’s no doubt about it. There’s nobody that tried to show us that they are speedier and all that, because we are fighting a common purpose for the common cause. So we were treated very well and of course there were other difficulties because sometimes we used to run out of rations and other difficulties which were very bad, quite often because the advance was so fast that sometimes you used to run out of ammunition, but we still survived. Then we ran out of rations, then our rations were halved and still if the supplies didn’t reach, it was halved again. We still had to survive and then we never got letters from back home for months together but we still survived. We faced the enemy bombardment, there was strafing by the air, and artillery shellings but we still survived because although the troops belonged to different countries, different religions, different castes, we all grouped, allied forces grouped themselves into a very good perfect family and this family, members of the family would not only respect each other but they would die for each other. There was so much respect and so much affection for each other that we would do anything for our fellow person whether he is an Australian, Canadian or any other country he may be.