Running time
41 sec
Date made
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
I just wanted to fight because England was pretty near a dangerous level of going under. Germany was sweeping everything before them and that's why I went.
My father was a true British. He came as a 19-year-old. He was true British and, of course, he brought us up that way. So, everything British that was our duty. That's why I went, and I think most of us, that's why we went. We couldn't get there quick enough to help.
We didn't think we'd get killed. We just wanted to help.
