Everyone joined up as soon as the War started everyone, all the youth of the nation flocked to join. You was taught it at school in those days that - everyone was taught history, geography which proved as the old saying ‘Britannia rules the waves’, ‘The sun never set on the British Empire' and you was ‘Big King Dick’! You had to be, you thought you was, you was taught that you owned the world practically and everyone simply joined up in crowds.

It was the general opinion, I’ve said it times and others have said the same, that you had to go quick, in case it all finished. You couldn’t picture as a youth in those days, you couldn’t picture any country with an army big enough to defeat the British. You couldn’t picture it at all. You expected that oh, well two or three months at the most you thought.