Making our way to Aberdeen

And we decided that we better get down to Aberdeen where there was a first aid station. And so I guess we walked, it must have been a couple of hours it took us to get down there, three hours maybe more to get down to the Aberdeen naval barracks where they had their first aid station and they tried to patch some of us up and then they decided to load us up all into a truck and took us up to the hospital, to Victoria Hospital. Well, I was in the hospital for eight or nine days I guess. They had nurses trying to get stuff out of my eyes so I could see. They got enough stuff out that I could see daylight anyway and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was anyway and they patched up my leg and everybody else was looked after I guess and so actually I didn’t know whether the war was over until three or four days later when the Japanese officers came in and started inspecting everybody and anybody that could walk was sent to the prison camp. They didn’t send me out on the first batch they kicked out. Apparently they wanted room for their own wounded and so on.