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Les [Wakeford] on Board

17 March 1916 Fri
Arrived Alexandria 11 oclock & lost no time in getting aboard the S.S. Arcadia. A fine ship & very clean. 16 to each mess. 17th Battalion 13th Light Horse, Engineers all on board. Jimmy Fay here. Left Alexandria 5. pm. All precautions taken against submarines as usual.

18 March 1916 Sat
(Boys) Slept at the foot of the companion way last night. A bit of a sea running consequently a lot of the boys are down to it. Bell Sid Bragg & myself indulge in a fair amount of light refreshments through the day. Busy with typhoid innoculations very nearly all day. We were also done ourselves.

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