Sergeant Harold O. Jackson

I was placed on the boat in England by stretcher. On the way home I asked the nurse for crutches and learned to use the crutches on the boat during my trip home. On arrival, I walked off on crutches with my own backpack.

The reason I was anxious to get on crutches was the requirement to be able to walk off in order to go home, otherwise all stretcher patients had to be admitted to hospital when we landed in Canada.

I hardly remember coming off the boat at Pier 21 but I do remember walking into the Coliseum in Toronto and my family there to meet me June 30th, 1945.

On the train ride from Halifax, I remember meeting another amputee who showed me how he could walk. It gave me real hope for my own rehabilitation on my return to civilian life.