Life in a Bunker

Living conditions were something. Like the First World War, we just lived in holes. And like the sergeant said, "We're living like rats, and we're gonna die like rats." And that's the way it was. We built up the bunkers nice. We put plywood on the inside. We had these PX boxes. We'd build up the side of them, and they come out fairly nice inside, but . . .

Interviewer: So how many days might you have to be in that bunker?

Well, I think we did three months in and a month out, and three in and a month out.

Interviewer: And that was your home.

That was our home. Then when you went back to the echelon, A Echelon, they had tents, so it was not bad. We had, we got in the armoured corps, we got one hot meal a day, and we had to go down and pick it up from the infantry. And he didn't like us because every time they missed us, they'd hit his kitchen. So, his pots and pans . . .So, he wanted the tanks off the hill, yeah.