The Young Soldiers Battalion

I wasn’t conscripted. I signed up and I was going to France if I could have, but they put me in this Young Soldier’s Battalion and they just drilled the hell out of us. They drilled us for eight hours a day and I mean they drilled us. We were trained by a (inaudible) and we had officers too.
They did a four and four, there was four of us deep and had the (inaudible) on the left form platoon and we’d just say if the odd numbers don’t mark down two paces, how the hell can the rest form a platoon and we used to sing that...