Pro Patria No. 16, May 1973
You fellows do bring back some very sad and wonderful memories, forgotten or repressed, about our young comrades and about a period in our lives when everything was just a great big ball; fist-fights, boots, parade square, L/Cpls, 2nd Looie's, Discipline, CB, Buddies, beer, babes, hitch-hiking, Detention, AWOL, Sex, McGuire, Judy (Regtl) , Red & Blue shoulder patches, Kure, Ciro's, Seoul, 355, 187, Death to Bill Dawson by being tapped on the chest by Officer and sent to "Baker" , Shock for me by being sent to "Able" 2 Platoon, O.P. , 88 set, Direct hit, confusion, Old Shag, Shorey, Lt George Collins, in reserve, rum for boots, pup-tents, drunk, snow, big red (cut hair) punched Leggit, Leggit punched Sgt Purcell, sober, Aussie lost his Owen Gun I got it, the Hook, OP, Heresum, gas can, Bunker-fire, Heresum burned, Me, buttered his face, lost everything, Chinese shelled, said goodbye to MLR, could type soft touch, Company clerk, 3 RCR, Number ten, watched, "Charles", Mullin, DeCoste, good guys, death, 187, let me go home, No, fight, L/Cpl punched, Griffin McManues, Gary, Ed, rifles, top of hill, searchlights, R.P.'s, Div Provo, fight, guardhouse, pack-drill, home.
Just memories when we were all very young. Sorry I couldn't have been a better soldier fellows, but then we all could have been better if we had not been quite so young…
… Life goes on, live it up Royals for you are still the greatest and I am very proud to have served with you. Wonder how much that Owen Gun cost the Aussie? I would like to pay the R.A.R. for it. Conscience!
Yours truly, Lewis Murphy
Too Few Honours; Rumours of Historical Parsimony in Regimental Honours and Awards
The RCR and Historic South-Western Ontario Units