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wait I am thinking there were also a good few warships in there, & I noticed the Ribble" the destroyer that towed us across on the morning of the 25th April.
We were landed about 11 oclock that morning & some of the chaps were that weak that a motor ambulance fetched them round to the camp as we passed the hospital the Dr's & nurses came out & had a look at us & I heard one nurse say poor fellows they look more fit for the hospital than anything else & she was right half of them knocked up before they got round to the camp, on the way over we had to cross a long arm of the sea a sort of backwater it was a short cut so you can bet we went across it
though it was up to our thighs in places, arrived at Sarpy camp thoroughly knocked up, & were detailed off to tents, how glad we were to throw our packs & rifles off & to get outside & buy some grapes & figs the grapes were very plentiful & cheap you could buy enough for 3d as you could eat, but they soon drove the price up I can't stand the Greeks at any price everyone gorged themselves with fruit for you know we were fruit hungry & it was a sort of craving we had on us needless to say we paid pretty dearly for it the next day didn't our stomachs ache & roll, eggs also were plentiful & we used to get any amount of them & cook them for our tea