A. Sh’wm't MncDmmld D.F.C., MD. C..M. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Section 2 
     
     TRENTON AND ON TO AIR FORCE 
     
    
   
   
    
     During my vacation in the Summer of 1940, I was 
     
     given the opportunity to teach in Murray Harbour school 
     
     for the following year. The war had started in September 
     
     of 1939, at the time when I was elected as Vice President 
     
     of the Eastern Section of the Teachers’ Convention at Uigg. 
     
     The President was a teacher from Murray River but soon 
     
     he joined up in the army, and I was made President. At the 
     
     time I was teaching in Little Sands school. Following the 
     
     outbreak of the war, it seemed to be the bounden duty of 
     
     all young men to enlist in the army. My father was over 
     
     70 years of age, and I was the only son to take over the 
     
     farm, along with my uncle’s farm, which was next to ours. 
     
     I therefore had a guilty feeling of letting them down, by 
     
     joining up in the army. 
     
    

    
     On one of my trips to Charlottetown, I met one 
     
     of the teachers whom I had known for years. She told 
     
     me they were looking for teachers in the army, so I 
     
     thought I would look into the matter. I called down to the 
     
     Armouries, at which time I was given an appointment. 
     
    

    
     I can recall the day quite well. Hector MacDonald and I 
     
     decided to make a day of it, by taking along two girls from 
     
     Wood Islands and driving to Charlottetown. We stopped 
     
     for a few minutes and took some pictures in Newtown. 
     
    

    
     As a result of the trip, Hector joined the Navy and I joined 
     
     up in the Army to become a Teacher Training instructor, 
     
     of which I knew very little, other than the short experience 
     
     of physical training in Prince of Wales College, which 
     
     training was called PT, to teach the school children. 
     
    

    
     I was fully joined up and was to report to a training 
     
     camp in Quebec, but when all arrangements were made 
     
    
   
   
    
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