Adventure, Training and the Cameron Highlanders

I was glad because I, after I got into the drill hall, some of the people that were in the militia whom I was with, well I, I felt kind of happy about the whole thing. Like I said before I was an adventurer and I was looking for, get in the army or any one of those services and, and, and see the world, you know, because it was a war. It didn’t really enter my mind that it was going to be anything dangerous, it was an adventure, honestly.
We did all our training in Landsdown Park. It wasn’t for long. We moved, later on when we were ready to go to Halifax we were transferred, our unit was transferred to Borden. And then we did a little bit more training until they, they got a train set up and they came right into the site track, they had right in Borden. I believe it’s still there. It lead to one of the big store houses. Well I tell you, my training being in the NPAM for so long, I had all the training. It was just a, what I was getting later, was just an improvement or something new that came out. I really loved it. I would go on the ranges with the machine gun and Vickers machine gun with a belt you know, and I was just happy as old hell you know.
It was, yes, and they stared off actually with a, with a platoon. There was an infantry rifle regiment and they started, before the war several years, they started a platoon of around thirty men with the Vickers, training, training a, a platoon with the Vickers machine gun. That was my first experience really, that I really liked. Because you get on the ranges there and you knock plates out, they put targets, steel, and you just open up on them. And I really enjoyed that.