I went in the Army for four years until I was 26, with the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI). I flew to Vancouver and then on to Tokyo. I was fighting in the Korean War. I was in the trenches for about four months. We didn't know what day it was. We would sleep in the morning after breakfast and then get up and have our dinner. We would go in the trenches again for the night. Sometimes we would be up to our knees in water. I was in Korea for about eight months and then for a year and a half in Germany. I also was in Japan for about a month.

I came home by boat – on the "Marine Lynx". When I came home from the Army I married Bride. We had a large wedding. We had six children – four of our own and we adopted two. The rest is history.

Abandoned cellar in
Mosquito, Colinet Island.

Devil's Chimney, Colinet Island.

Reginaville, Colinet Island, 1997