Mustard Gas Victim

I went down the line, you see with, gassed, and that was it seems to me about the 9th or 10th of May, 1917. It was mustard gas poisoning, you see, it worked on you, slowly. It wasn’t just like a sudden thing that got you. It worked on you slowly. And you absorbed it, you see, for instance in your joints. You took it in, you see, and absorbed it that way. It wasn’t like cloud gas that would get you at once and you’d see it coming. But the shell gas of course affected you slowly, but it put you out of action just the same.I was taken back to England on a stretcher of course to Graylingwell War Hospital in Chichester, England. And there of course, after some time back to Canada. I crossed, came back to Canada on the SS Regina, on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic.