Quotes by David Walker

As the skipper used to say, Where's that effing dog? , and you'd take a look and you'd see it swimming away behind like.

I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it's the way to see the world and get paid for it.

In the middle, middle of the monsoon season, lying there soaking wet and the spoilsports didn't come! And that's when I had, because I can always remember just lying there saying to myself, the water just running down my neck and that, I said, 'Well David. There's not many people get a twenty first birthday party like this.'

Then it ended up at the Farne Salmon at Duns and I stayed there about eight years, 'til I retired. I should really have got a gold watch because they don't usually stay that long with Fane Salmon!

Well, for the young man, I mean, I just went to an infantry regiment but there's always your corps, the engineers and I mean that all just gives you a good sounding for if you were coming out into civvy street, for the jobs. But I think it was the biggest mistake when they ever stopped it.

Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.

When, we used to go down to Singapore or Selarang Garrison you know, for leave and then back country but the company I was in, we always seemed to get into trouble and we always seemed to get sent back up again.