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Description
Mr. Taylor describes joining the Royal Twenty Second Regiment (Vandoos) as a wireless operator, and describes the workings of a forward observation post.
Transcription
I remember the Imjin River, that they set up on there. That’s a few spots before but the big one was the Imjin River, and they set up there and put down some artillery fire, but in the mean time I got a job with the observation officer again up at the OP, but I was working in the command post before that. So I went up there to work with the Royal 22nd Regiment, the French regiment from Quebec and I worked with them for a while as a wireless operator for an observation officer. The artillery officer gets out ahead of the battalion and at times he has a small section for protection. And he goes out as far as he figures you know, it’s safe. And then you just call down fire on the enemy what you could see. We’d just get out to a spot where you could see more then you could if you were back in your original position. But we had a lot of protection from the infantry battalion so we were in a slit trench anyway, working out of there. But they protected us pretty good. We were pretty safe up there. I hope, well I’m here so I mean, yeah.