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Description
Mr. McKerracher speaks about meeting his bride and getting married while serving in England and the difficulty he felt returning to civilian life.
Transcription
And I married in England, just before D-Day, so that I was waiting for quite some time for a ship to take me home. My wife didn’t accompany me, she had to go on a separate ship. And I think we, we was based in Aldershot for about two months, at least, waiting for our ship. She was in Stoke-on-Trent, and I was down in Aldershot.Interviewer: When did you finally get together? When we got to ... when she come over to Canada, which was in March of the next year. It was difficult to settle down, and I had an opportunity to start farming. I took over my father’s equipment, and so on, because he was getting rather elderly. And I farmed for about two years, and didn’t really make a success of it. I tried two or three other things to do, and I was most happy when they asked for volunteers to go to Korea. And I joined up again at something that I could do well.