What it was like in Burma – I would think action would be difficult… different from the true fighting to be in Signals because we had a little Dodge truck – everything was American, everything was American – a Dodge truck, okay. And that would carry us forward, and our job was to be really isolated between Division, on the one hand, and Brigade, on the other. And what we could do would be to communicate between one and the other.

And so, we learnt Morse code, and Morse code, you know, was another form of speech... do they still have Morse code? Probably not, probably not. But in those days, you learned Morse code and you could pick it up quickly, and you could send it quickly at 60 or even 80 words a minute, which was quite, quite fast. But I did get very fast at doing it and at sending it. And that was what we would do, mainly at night-time, but not only at night-time, but we would certainly work through the night.

And, yes, such was the routine. The days were divided into three. One of the days was supposedly a day off, the other day one worked morning and afternoon, and on the third day one worked all night. And these messages poured through from Brigade, and we relayed them on to Division.

And… for more than one time, we were actually attacked by wandering Japanese, a gang of Japanese. You see, at this stage, although our supply lines were terribly extended, just think of the Japanese supply lines. They were very, very bad indeed. And so these guys were starving and angry and they wanted to attack us – well, they wanted to kill us, but they also hoped they'd find some food. And so, we only had Lee Enfield rifles, the old rifle, the old rifle that the British had used in war after war. The Lee Enfield... God Almighty. And with that we could shoot the Japs when they tried to attack our little vehicle.