“Why I joined up”

There was no money around. If you had twenty five cents you were, you were rich if you had a quarter. It was very, very scarce, money was very scarce. I think if they worked on a farm, anybody that worked it was fifty cents a day and they were lucky if they got fifty cents a day. In 1939 when England declared war, they were paying a dollar, I think it was $1.30 a day for to go into the army so $1.30 a day was a lot of money! You were rich if you had $1.30 a day, so pretty near all young people joined pretty well right away.