Citizen Soldiers

You see in those days, there was every man at that time used to have to spend three years in the army. From when he was 17 until he was 20 years of age he had to spend in the army. And of course if he didn’t stay in the army he went out, but he was always subject to recall you see. And we were known as citizen soldiers because we hadn’t gone through that. We didn’t have compulsory military training you see in Canada at that time.We found that those men that had been trained it was out of date. There was all brand new tactics and new system altogether. Their training was really out of date, that’s what we found.