You know it seemed like a marvellous life and of course it was glamorous in then days, you know. See, cos there was none of this motorised stuff, you fancy as a young chap, a local chap, seeing a bunch of cavalry, see. Well that was a hell of attraction for us young chaps, then on top of that you see the smashing uniforms they used to have. All gold braid and all that you know and the spurs. It were hellishly fascinating. It’s all very well today it’s a laugh today, they laugh like hell at you for talking like that. But that was it, there was nothing else about.... They all mucked in with you know made you ever so welcome. . . I was in the canteen and I were, me and old Sid Carroll, we were talking to the, this was before the War of course, talking to some chaps in there and we was saying how nice it was the army, and we thought we’d like to join. I remember now one of them turned to us he says, ‘You keep out the bloody show,’ he said, ‘Keep out of it’. See course it was a tough life you know. Grooming horses and all that and it was a - and only a bob a day. See, so I mean. I remember one of then blokes telling us, ‘Keep out of it.’