His Regiment Reacts to Hitler Youth Executions

The reaction was to do the same to them, but when it come to actual fact of doing it, none of em could do it, very few of them could do it. We were never taught that way. Life is a precious thing. I can’t say it didn’t happen, but not to the extent that the Canadians suffered when they were prisoners, you know. I know when we went on patrol, when we were over Bray, when we left Angeurny we went over to Bray and, in behind the Regina Rifles and we had, again, had to go out and patrol and our platoon was elected, we arrived around noon and two o’clock we’re out on patrol, going over in the direction of Rots, and we’re, officer told us to lie down and we creep forward and so on we go over a rise and the Gerries spot us and they opened up on us, small mortar and rifle grenades and things, like this, rifle fire. And two of our fellows were killed, and another fellow was wounded, our Corporal Burroughs (sp). And Edmonds, who was beside him, stood up, picked him up and run him to safety, and Edmonds got winged in the side of his head but he got back safely with Burroughs. Edmonds won the military medal for that. And the rest of us, we had to crawl back on our own, we waited until the wind blew the hay so that we could crawl with the movement of the, the hayfield, you know, so that it wasn’t obvious that it was a target there.