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Description
Mr. Whitman discusses boarding his train to leave for Vancouver and being denied visitors. After soldiers threaten to not go, their families are allowed to say goodbye. He arrives aboard HMAS Awatea just in time for another protest.
Transcription
Just before we were leaving, like I came back because I knew we were leaving... all bunch of them came back. And they decided that... put us under guard to keep us there. And we knew we were leaving and the people were coming in to say goodbye and they told us we couldn’t have any visitors. So we told them that if we couldn’t have any visitors before we left, we weren’t going. They changed their mind and we got our visitors. But...I don’t remember even thinking about where we were going. But... on the train, we got to Vancouver. We got on the boat, the Awatea and that night there was a bit of a riot. I missed the first part of it but the second part I was there. And some of the chaps got off the boats, and they up-anchored and pulled out about a mile into the harbour so nobody else could get off.