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Art Clarence Lynch served with the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Second World War. Read and listen to his testimony below.
Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Transcript
We [The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada] went on little barges, 50 men to a barge, across the [English] Channel. We docked there, and then we went to Belgium and stayed overnight, and then we went to the front lines. We were in that crawl trench [conceals movement into and within a position, but provides minimal protection] in Nijmegen [Netherlands] and places like that. See, we never stayed stationary, we were going. One time we starved for a while… Doing the occupation duty that was the best part. Well, we were like a policeman. We went on the beach and we’d walk and they just placed us, the ones that were in action, placed us on the beach; and we’d walk two miles say west and two miles south, and meet another two guys and go back again. Then they had a curfew, but the Germans had to go… [if they didn’t follow the] curfew, well, we were supposed to take them to jail.
