The Black Watch Regiment

It was my first regiment, Black Watch Royal Highland Regiment of Canada, in Gagetown New Brunswick. Highland Battalion is always unique, unique not only in dress but in sort of habits and policies and that sort of thing. We wore kilts, of course, we wore bonnets with the red hackle and we knew that we’ve come from a famous regiment, Black Watch is one of the famous wartime regiments, First World War, Second World War and Korea. So it was a great regiment to be born in. Well we had a lot of fun, we had a lot of characters in the battalion and we had the bagpipes, of course, and we celebrated the Highland days, the Highland birthdays, like Robert Burns and all that stuff. We had a lot of fun and the battalion was... I think had they been tested in battle would have done well. We did a lot of exercises but there wasn’t any battle to go to in those days.