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Mr. Forsyth recalls a Veteran who had been wounded at Vimy in the First World War, signing up for the Second World War and passing the registration medical at roughly the same time as himself.
Transcription
And, and there was, we, in the course of a medical we naturally were stripped, and there was an old Veteran ahead of me, and, and our MO, John Crawford, he said to this Veteran ahead of me, he said, "Sit down here!" And the old man sat down, and Crawford said, "My you, you, you, you certainly comb your hair in a peculiar manner, don't you? " And so the Vet said, "No sir." "Well, we'll just see," and, and Crawford parted his hair and he said, "I see you've got a plate in your skull here. Where did you get that? " And the old man said, "Vimy Ridge." Well, so the, the MO, John Crawford, Captain Crawford, he said to Colonel, the Colonel at that time, Colonel Kay, he said, "How about this? " And Colonel Kay said, "One volunteer is worth twenty conscripts, sign him on." He, he told me confidentially, he said, "The only reason I joined because," he said, "it would be a free trip, a free trip to the old country, and I will see all my relatives." And he said, "I can't afford to pay for a trip but, but this should be a free trip to the old country." And, and we never saw England, we never saw Scotland, all his relatives are in Scotland. And that old Vet died in prison camp.