The Lee Enfield Rifle

Well the unit that I was with and the outfit that I was with, we were building a camp site for future troops on the side of the hill to operate 30,000 troops. So when we quit at 4 o'clock, 4:30 we started to march off back to our billets they were about four or five miles away and somebody announced that the war had ended. But it never meant a thing to us. We just kept marching on, never . . . we didn't fall out or rush here or there and we didn't get all excited about it, the war was over. And I don't suppose that whatever went on at that camp, I don't suppose it was ever finished. Perhaps it all had to be, all had to be torn down. But that's the way it was. And then everyday after that there was no training. There were, there were a lot of jobs everywhere. I was allowed, with another fella, to go up into the hill and sit at a position, which had a lot of bombs and munitions and they had to guard it. So another fella and I had to guard it 24 hours and that's all you had to do.