Thread: THEY WERE HARD MEN IN ThOSE DAYS

I copied this from an old Deercullers Magazine
Thanks are due to Marlbourough Express 21/10/92 ...Brian Clemens.

" I met up with some jokers who were going deer shooting. It paid six pound a week plus keep, so off I went with them into the St James, St Helens, Molesworth and Lake Sumner areas. It took the old man six months to find out where I had gone".

He spent three years culling in all, learning along the way valuable lessons in camp life, bush craft, and "How to look after yourself".

He thrived on the isolation of a deer cullers life. There were no helicopter drops or walkie talkies in those days.

"We went into the hills on August the 26th 1939 and war broke out on September 3, but we didn't know about it until the following May when we came out ". George recalls