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Description
Mr. MacLeod describes being wounded while disposing of a German grenade, and after two weeks medical leave returning to his platoon and only finding one original member left.
Transcription
We got up right on the outskirts of Caen and a reinforcement had found a grenade where... We were sneaking along underneath hedgerows that night and the sergeant said to me to get rid of it for him. He didn’t know what to do with it. So I threw the thing as far as I could. It was a German concussion grenade and I could throw it a long ways and the only part on that could hurt you came back and hit me on the chin. The plug on the back, back end of it which is a miracle anyway so I was out for about two weeks. I got sent back to England, I had a (inaudible) there, I really didn’t need it but when I came back two weeks later, they had advanced on past through Caen and rejoined the unit. On our platoon at that time, about a 30 man platoon or so, there was one person left in that platoon. For one reason or another the rest were gone.