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Mr. MacLeod describes joining the army instead of the air force because they would correct a hernia from which he was suffering. He discusses his training pathway, and joining the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders upon his arrival in England.
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I tried to join in 1942 in the fall after harvest, but I was okay for the Air Force until they found out I had a hernia and the Air Force wouldn’t repair that but the Army would do it for free and before hospitalization, of course, I couldn’t afford to have it done so the Army did it and then I was in the Army. In March of ‘43 I was enlisted actually, enlisted in the Army. Basic training in Regina and Prince Albert, advanced infantry training in Shilo and I went to NCO school in Shilo and then I instructed advanced infantry training in Shilo again and got on a draft to go overseas in December of ‘43, that’s right, and we spent five or six weeks at Debert camp in Nova Scotia which was a holding point and then went overseas in about February of ‘44 and then the Queens Own Camerons, they had been at Dieppe, you may have heard of Dieppe, and they has lost a lot of their fighting troops so they needed reinforcements. I was reinforcement to the Queens Own Camerons.