The Japanese Attack Shamshuipo

The only thing I can remember is we were in the Shamshuipo barracks at the time and I had always been taught by my father that if indeed I ever got into circumstances where there was any bombing or shelling taking place to find the nearest hole, nearest shell hole, that I could find because, "Unlike lightning," as he said, "there won't be another shell land in that hole. So you get into that hole." Which I did, together with one other chap, and prior, prior to doing that, I should say that prior, in making my way to the shell hole, a bomb was dropped and I was hit in the arm and two places in my leg, so I was, I was wounded.

Interviewer: Once the initial attack had taken place, were you taken for medical care?

Yes, once I was picked up. It was pretty confusing you know because everybody realized they had to get out of the barracks and of course they, some, they brought in some trucks and people started getting up on the trucks and very few people, if any others, knew that this other chap and I were, had been wounded, and so they were sort of saying, "goodbye" and, "you'll be in another truck" sort of thing, you know. But that didn't happen and they all left the Shamshuipo barracks
and I wouldn't be altogether sure where they all went at that particular time but certainly it was, or someone realized that we were in trouble in that shell hole and came and got us and took us to the Bowen Road Hospital in Hong Kong.