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2.

Were any of your friends killed or wounded either during the landing or
during the day? Not the first day.

Do you remember any conversations you had with them before they became
casualties?
—

Were you wounded? No

How were you wounded? —

Do you remember what it was like -- that is, do you remember whether you
felt any pain or were you so surprised that you felt nothing?
—

Do you remember seeing or hearing anything that seems funny now, even though
it may not have seemed amusing at the time? Or anything unexpected or out-
of-place?
When I went below to keep my watch on
the switchboard a seaman from Whitehaven was
making toys. I told him to go on the upper deck
and watch the gunfire, he calmly remarked guns or
no guns I am going to finish my toys.

Do you recall any incident, sad or heroic, or simply memorable, that struck
you more than anything else?
Troops jumping from the landing craft into
the water; waist deep with rifles about their
heads, shouting and running toward the beaches.
Then lying down and firing at the Germans
on the top of the cliffs. Both our troops and
Germans were falling like ninepins.