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lamps – I feel in despair, I cannot read six words – wonder if I ever will. Sketching as usual; as I use my pencil when ever I get a chance I shall make no further mention of it. '
Dec: 27
Read book of military law and regulations, which goes in at one ear and out of the other; quite enough things to bother me.
Dec; 28
Arrive at Albany - I think a lot of the happy days I spent sketching here when this terrible war was little dreamt of. We are not allowed to say Transport Fleet is in Albany or what ships we are on – West Australian Government are advertising and running excursions to see the Transport Fleet in Albany; I also receive letters addressed to me "Transport Cerania, A.40" !!!
Dec; 29 Albany
Amusing incident - no boats of any kind permitted near transports – one enterprising Albany grocer climbs up on to out ship for orders – he is promptly put in the cells and kept there for two days.
Tonight am sitting up on sergeants' deck under a deck lamp, writing my last letters before we leave Australia, as tomorrow New Zealand Transports, for which we are waiting, will have joined us.
DEC; 30
Steam out of Albany, A greyish day - Nature is sad, she weeps for us as we steam away close up to the great bluffs of