Transcript: ‘Piggery Ridge’

Audio transcript

Ethan Fagon:

We used to be stationed in a place in Londonderry called Piggery Ridge, that’s what the locals named it - Piggery Ridge. It was in the Creggan district... That place was patrolled 24/7 - when one patrol is coming out, one is going in. We normally pass...

One day we were coming up... we had two places, well three places, cos sometimes we used to drive around so that they can't really set to ambush you, because they don’t know where you're coming from.

But this particular day we were coming out... we were on patrol, and we were coming up this side and we reached halfway up the hill and there was a school down the bottom and all of a sudden we hear 'brrrrrmp'. And when you look, there were bullets. I’m not lying - I was about here and the bullets were digging up the ground about there. 

I went: 'Down!' And everybody jumped.

There was a little contour kind of thing that stopped the earth from washing away, and everybody was down in there. And then we turned around and then we emptied our magazines in the school, but we didn’t catch anybody, you know.

You take it as a laugh, because if you actually take it serious you’ll die.