Fellowship of Regiment

When you’re trained as reinforcements, your training is not as interesting because people come and go, but when you, when we got to England and then eventually out to the regiments then you became part and parcel of that regiment and you’re not sort of in transit. Up until this time you’ve been sort of six weeks here and six weeks there and another six here and so on and so forth in little stages meeting different people but all of a sudden, now you become static. You’re part of, you’re a part of a company. A company of the Algonquin Regiment which was my regiment. And all of a sudden then you develop the real ties of soldiering fellowship and so on because you keep moving in your earlier years in the training. You develop very close people, but you move on, they go different directions and so on, but you’re more stable in the regiment and your associations become very closely knit.