The British Army was the most terrible institution that I’ve ever heard about at that time. It comprised of people dodging the law, people who were underground people, orphans, anybody that was riff-raff was turned into the Army, and of course the discipline was pretty heavy, I can assure you on that, when we joined and of course these old soldiers then you see, they’d got to have someone to make us form fours and march so they could shout on the square and of course they called a lot of these old soldiers up and of course they had the time of their lives shouting and calling us what they thought of us and all that sort of thing you see. Of course they was all amazed, most of them were so amazed we could pick up what it had taken them years to learn. They were surprised that in a few months’ time you could learn all there was to learn and be made a Sergeant or you could be Quartermaster and do all the ordering and the paying and all that business in no trouble at all after it had taken them years and years to rise to that position.