Item 02: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 28 July 1915-1917 - Page 50

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very little tea is drunk, may be in the big cities.

One picture was the crowding into carriages. Of a night it was not possible to stretch out and go to sleep, it was a matter of just sitting in the corner and dozing.

Whilst in the journey news came of the battle of Pozieres, the place where the Australians fought their first big stunt.

On the journey we passed a train load of "jocks", this being our first experience of British troops, excepting a few we saw on the wharf at Port Suez.

We eventually reached our destination, Havre, the only feature worth recording was the eagerness displayed by the French "garcon" after a tea of "Bully Beef". The journey

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