Item 07: Hector Brewer diary, 17 November-12 December 1918 - Page 28

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[Page 28]

The siding and street near by here are a lively congestions of troops horses wagons, automobiles, stacks of shells and mud.
27th Two more trains came in between 11 A.M. and 12 noon with tired, fed-up troops on board. They had had a long and cramped journey. This is easily the worst move we have to ever experienced.
One battalion of the 15th Bde. Who had made a good journey, detrained looking smart and clean and they swung out of the town in such good style that I was inclined to think a that a good deal of discipline still existed in at least part of the A.I.F.

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