Honorable discharge

There was a bunch of us at Bramshott - Dick Rouse, Jesse James, Shorty McNabb, more and more of them - and we were supposed to go back to the battalion headquarters, but instead of that, they loaded us, they took us over to Rell (sp), loaded us on a boat and sent us back to Canada. And I was on the boat for Christmas and on the train for New Year’s. I landed back in Saskatoon on the seventh of January at 7 o’clock in the morning and I got off the CNR station in Saskatoon, went over to Second Avenue, got on a street car. In those days they had a motor man and a conductor. Well, I didn’t have five cents to put in the change box so the motor man, the conductor came up to me and he said, “You didn’t put any money in.” And I was in full marching order less rifle and I said to him, I said, “Look here fellow,” I said, “I’ll be back here on this car for a while to come yet.” My people lived up on 14th Street in Saskatoon and I said, “I’ll pay you the five cents some time when I get my money, when I get my cheque.” And that’s the end of my war, my war career except I went back down to Regina on the 23rd of January 1919, and got an honourable discharge dated in Regina December 23, 1919, military district #12. That’s my career.