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Description
Mr. Wight, who was not quite 18 talks about the reasons of why he volunteered for service in the British Armed Forces.
Transcription
Newfoundland was the oldest colony that England had and every one of them . . . there was never, no Newfoundlanders . . . of any description. Everybody volunteered right outta . . . You went, you went, and they used to say to us, "You know, why, you don't have to go out overseas. Would you go because your buddy was gone? " And you . . . they'd take you down to Corner Brook and give you a medical. Then you give ya . . . go home for a few weeks. Then they send us in the (inaudible), and if you passed it, you were gone.
Interviewer: Nobody was worried about . . .
No. Well, yeah, sure our mothers and fathers were, but you know, naturally, but they'd, they'd say to you well, well . . . You'd say, well, such and such a guy is gone, I'm going to go. So, I wasn't quite 18 when . . . but I . . . The guy asked, and that little small fella. Not very big now but, I mean, guys used to say, "You haven't got a chance." And when . . . I couldn't believe it. When we went through the medical, doing all this day, and I come out. "You go in that room." And all the other guys was, "What's happening? " There was three of us, was picked out of the bunch.