Guarding Internees

The Germans and Italians, they lived like kings. They lived like kings, anything they wanted, they got. I can’t recall the size of it but we had four corner posts with Lewis guns, we had live ammunition - Lewis guns and about every fifty feet around the perimeter there was a post and about every 15 or 20 minutes the ground crew in the perimeter, you’d shift posts. I recall a fellow by the name of Murray, Jimmy Murray, he lived in Saskatoon. He was on the tower one day and he let loose with the Lewis gun at the German swastika flag that had been put up. The flag never went back up but he got confined to barracks or detention for firing at the flag. But the internees lived like kings, they weren’t prisoners of war. The large majority of them were civilians, they were off merchant ships and civilian areas that the British had moved into in Italian Africa - that’s just what it amounted to.