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"We evacuate this week, be ready!" we could not have advertised it more.
Well – after all! We got off – we came to Lemnos on a very crowded boat, & went ashore on the afternoon of the 20th. There was nothing ready – they had expected wounded. We set to & pitched tents. Next day was no good – it rained most of this morning, there was no wood, & very little water, we lived on tinned fruit & managed to cook a Dixie of porridge each for tea.
Lemnos is a fine harbour, crammed that day with shipping, but there is no town you cannot get a bath, nor a meal, so you can imagine how we felt, when we got marching orders again. We each have about 100 lbs of kit up – so these route marches are no joke. Its winter now & you want a fair kit – because – goodness knows where we are going to. It might be Saloni-ka, but most probably Egypt – but no one knows we are at sea again, that's all we are certain of. If its Alexandria we ought to get in about Monday 27th Percy must be there I hope he is – not a bad boat this she was behind us, in the first fleet that came over it seems a long time ago!