Anticipating a German invasion

But the English were extremely good to us. On one occasion, on the egg beat, when the power was knocked out, I had a farmer come in to my troop office, and quite desperate he said that he had sixty, he milked sixty cows and he had a couple of land girls who were away on leave and his milking machines were out because of the power failure. Did I have, did any of my soldiers know how to milk a cow and could they, for God's sake, come over and help him out until the power came back on. So my troop Sergeant Major called for volunteers who would like to go over to the farm and milk cows. They all stepped forward but he finally says "Where do you live? ", Toronto, Toronto, Toronto, forget it! So they finally narrowed it down to half a dozen guys who really were off dairy farms and they went over and they looked after his milking requirements. And that guy said "I would like to do something to pay you back, this is very nice. I also have a big battery of egg layers and I can give a few eggs. We are not suppose to do anything with our eggs except turn them over to the Price and Trade Board people but I'm allowed to dispose of any cracked eggs." So he said "If you like some cracked eggs, I can drop a few off." So I got a dozen eggs about twice a week dropped off at the troop, for the, ‘till we, till we moved away. And you couldn't find the cracks on very many of them, so. So that was a good example of how, how helpful they were.