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Description
With very little fighting power at Mount Nicholson, Mr. Bembridge is supplied with bombs from a young Chinese boy.
Transcription
Interviewer: Were you involved in the fighting on Mt. Nicholson?
Yeah
Interviewer: What do you remember about that?
I don’t know, I remember we didn't have enough stuff and this Carl Johnson, he was with me, he’s dead now but him and I worked together on a trench mortar. And we were using bombs but we couldn’t get bombs, you know. And jeez that’s a hell of a feeling, when you got nothing to fight with, eh? There was a kid, I wanted to bring him home with me, I said I’d raise him and take him home. He was bringing bombs up to us. We couldn't get down to get ‘em and he was bringing them up the mountain, you know, but he could only bring like three or six at a time he would bring up, you know. And...
Interviewer: Was that a Chinese? ...
Ya, Chinese boy he was, he was about, I don’t know 11 years old maybe, 9 or 11 years old, I don’t know which. And we couldn’t understand him very good, you know. And he always wanted to be with us because he had been cleaning our room and everything for us when we were (inaudible) and he wanted to come with us. He said, he learned a few words and he said, “Me go Canada! I come you Canada.” He says like that, you know. I said, “Okay, if we live through the war, you know, you come with me to Canada.” Well, he turned up at the boat. When we were going to go. “Me go Canada oh yoi, yoi!!” And Doc, they wouldn’t take him. He said, “You can’t take him.” And I felt kind of bad about that because I had promised him, you know, that I’d take him with me and I’d look after him, you know.