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Description
Mr. Walsh discusses his disappointment with what he saw as an unfair repatriation policy which meant he was left behind when his unit returned to Canada.
Transcription
The only thing I didn’t like was the way they re-patriated the troops back home. They drew up a point system and you had to have a certain amount of points and the points were accumulated through time that you served from the time you joined up. Now a lot of them people arrived over a week before the war ended, two weeks before the war ended, three weeks before the war....
They were in services some of them for four years. They had all kinds of points. Now me, I was shy one point. I had to go on occupation duty for a whole year. Those fellows made up the unit and came back marching back to Canada. The hurt, that was really, really tough to take.