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Description
Mr. Sutherland describes being forced at bayonet point to board a reeking troop ship which had been a cattle boat, a lengthy voyage to England, and being fired on by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland.
Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland est né au Cap-Breton, en Nouvelle-Écosse, le 28 janvier 1893. Quand il avait dix-neuf ans, lui et son frère Jack se sont rendus en train dans l’ouest du Canada pour aider à faire les moissons. Il y est demeuré le reste de sa vie. Peu après son arrivée dans les Prairies, lui et son frère se sont enrôlés dans l’Armée canadienne et ont finalement été envoyés outre-mer avec le Corps expéditionnaire canadien.
Transcription
We went on the boat, some of us, and it was smell of cow manure, so we come off. Then they called out the soldiers and they put us on with the bayonets. That was a long trip, smelling that. We had a bad time going overseas. It took us 18 days from Halifax to England. Could you imagine that, 18 days? The Germans fired on us when we got near Ireland. That was the danger spot and we had a cutter going back and forth, you know, and the Germans fired on us, but they didn’t do us any harm, you know.