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and proceeded on her long trip, also ours! The scenery on the trip was very good; one thing I noticed was the absence of men officials on the railway, in nearly every case a woman served in that capacity.
We reached Calais about 1 o'clock. I know we were going a round about way to our final destination. The war traffic was the cause of this. All the peace time running of trains was considerably altered.
We travelled al that afternoon till 7 that evening. We finally reached Bailleul, (alas now in crumbling ruins!) Here we disentrained, and having had rations served out to us, we proceeded to a transport camp, about a mile distant. The streets of Bailleul was dotted with "Aussies" out on leave from their billets. Bailleul was considerably knocked about then.