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Mr. Roberts talks about getting wounded at Caen.
Emlyn Roberts
M. Roberts est né le 8 mai 1922 au Nord du Pays de Galles, en Grande-Bretagne. Sa famille est venue au Canada en 1926 en quête d'une vie meilleure et s'est installée à Watson Settlement, Comté de Carleton, N.-B. M. Roberts avait songé à la guerre et, lorsqu'on l'a appelé, il s'est enrôlé dans l'armée, croyant que c'était la chose à faire. Il a été affecté au corps blindé et a reçu son instruction au centre d'instruction du corps blindé de Dundurn, Saskatchewan. En décembre 1943, il a été affecté au 17th Dukes of Yorks et a été stationné à West Chiltington. M. Roberts a été blessé le 25 juillet, au cours d'un raid aérien allemand, et a perdu la jambe droite. Il s'est rétabli dans un hôpital de Grande-Bretagne et est revenu au Canada en novembre 1944, où il a achevé de se rétablir à l'hôpital des anciens combattants de Saint John, Nouveau-Brunswick. M. Roberts est finalement resté à l'hôpital pour y travailler, au service de prothétique, pendant trente-sept ans.
Transcription
I was wounded on the 25th of July, in an air raid, night. German air raid of course.
I was in a building and it was hit and the bomb came right into the room where I was and I was standing up at the time and, and that's when I, I was hit then, of course, and I don't remember very much, I can remember bits, I remember realizing I'd been hit and then after that I collapsed, I suppose, and then somebody helping to get me out of this hole I was in. And I remember being, somebody offering me a cigarette and I said, "I don't smoke." And then I can recall being put on a jeep, on a rack similar to M.A.S.H. that type of thing, and looking up and seeing the, the stars at night. So, then the next thing I remember being in a tent hospital back at Carpiquet Airport and I was, I was there for a week after I was injured before I was evacuated to the UK.
Badly, I lost a leg and I was hit in the arm and hip, the right hip, and right foot, and, and, oh I got hit five times I guess, yeah.
It's hard to say, shrapnel or rubble because the, you know, it's tough as, I suppose it could have easily been rubble as well, but it's shrapnel because I still retained some of that in my, in my leg, my hip.