Collection search - McCaulay, Ron - 29th Battalion - Interview

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: FLANDERS FIELDS

1980-0123

Sound

1 of 1

1964-02-11

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

interviewer, Frank Lalor

Interview of Ron McCaulay of the 29th Battalion, who talks about his experiences during World War I. Enlisting in 1914 for "the adventure," he describes his initial training in the "cattle sheds and horse barns" in Hastings Park, Vancouver.~At the battle of the St. Eloi Craters, he recalls that "the shellfire was so heavy, you couldn`t hear just one shell bursting - it was just a continual roar." He says, "Ninety-five of us went in at the time and thirty-five came out." After the battle, McCaulay remembers a harrowing incident while participating in a working party. He says, "I didn`t hear the shell coming... didn`t hear it burst, but I found myself about thirty-five yards or so, away..."~Transferred to England as an instructor, he remembers the flag raising ceremony that signalled Armistice. He recalls that he was "so happy that some way or another, it didn`t seem real that we were free of it all."

English

Open

GAD 0FD547

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