Ack-Ack on the Monacher of Bermuda

Interviewer: Do you remember when you set sail from Halifax?

Oh, it must have been June. I went over, the, the ship I went on was the, the, was the Monacher Bermuda, and they still carried civilians, so we had a state room. Myself and two other fellas, friends of mine, we had a state room. And they, they put us on ack-ack because they had a dummy funnel in the ship, it was a dummy, so he put us on up there in ack-ack and the, the one reason they put us up on ack-ack was because I was one of the only guys who knew anything about a Lewis machine gun. And I'd learned that in New Westminster where my father belonged to a reserve when he went up there in, to do the thing, you know, the, the reserves thing, I used to go sit there as a kid and watch. I knew all about a Lewis machine gun, it was a terrible machine gun. But they knew I knew about it.