Item 03: Walter Bruce Rainsford diary, 1 January 1916-31 December 1916 - Page 29

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[Page 29]

French I was able to make use of. Everything is French – no variety of tongues that one finds in Egypt.
Wednes 5" April:-
Left the "Braemar Castle" this morning to go into camp with the Unit in the grounds of the Château de Mousset. Went by motor ambulance & what a drive! First through the busy docks bustling with war activity – then through the city with its cobbled streets, & out into the suburbs beyond driving along fine long roads flanked with tall trees & pretty detached houses with green covered hills rising in the background. And then along a narrow road by the seashore until we turned inland – the country rural aspect now became evident the car passing along narrow lanes

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