A Sense of Humour

I'm not saying that the British soldier was the best soldier in the world. Probably the best soldier in the world is the Ghurkha, but the reason that the British soldier was as good as he was, was his sense of humour and sense of humour will pull you through. And the British, this isn't every single person, but generally speaking is known to have quite a sense of humour. And I really believe that had a lot to do with the way the civilians acted and the way the soldiers acted, in general.

Interviewer: Can you expand on that a little bit? How is it that the sense of humour helps a person get through what they get through?

Well, if you can laugh at anything, yeah I guess you can keep yourself going. You can always see something humorous whatever it is. I mean, we had a lot of funny things happen there. My book is full of it. I haven't got stabbing Germans and all that kind of stuff, all the way through that book. There was a lot of funny times and they did mean something. I think they put your mind in a little better state. Not everybody maybe, but certainly most people. Certainly did me. Course I've always had a sense of humour.