Transcript
Came in at about 10:00 o'clock at night, and the cook always had a bucket of black tea, for us to have a refreshing drink. It had been drizzling rain all day, and in the camp they'd dug out a big dugout to let the water rain down into the river. It was my turn to get it and of course barefooted and as I was coming back with it, it was an old bucket. My foot slipped, and I threw the bucket, and the whole lot came down on that leg. Both of them. They were just blistered from top to bottom.
Waited till morning when the sick parade was on. Colonel Dunlop had a look at it, and he didn't say anything. Anyway, I don't know if it was Emanzen tablets or what it was. But I know but they couldn't bandage. We had no bandage, so I just have to stay there with them like that. But the point about it was, if you got a little cut on your leg or anything like, within about a week or 10 days, you had an ulcer like that, and I know they thought I was going to lose both my legs. They thought it was nothing surer. Three weeks, and I was out. I'd healed up, just like that.
