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Description
Mr. Sutherland describes being advised by his sergeant to shoot less accurately lest he be chosen for sniper duty; all snipers were hated and executed if captured.
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
This Sergeant White from Ontario, he took a great liking to me, you know. I never saw him before. So he told me, he said, “Your marks are too ...” We were shooting out over the sea and I thought it was a great thing! So he called me aside and he said, “Look,” he said, “Dan, they’re going to make a sharp shooter out of you and you lay off of those or you’ll be ... you don’t want to be ...” And I said, “I certainly don’t.” “Well, don’t try to hit those marks. Shoot in the sea there.” So he told me, but it was good. I didn’t want to be a sniper, because they never took snipers in the war. The minute they took him they put a bullet in him. All armies.