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[Page 14]
March 1916
Monitor & several other naval boats and launches. This part of the canal is very busy with native boats carrying stone & water & supplies etc. There is also a big pumping station & the terminus of a railway & the engine is worked by petrol & is on a small scale & has a run of about ten miles to the trenches. On the 12th I finished ferry fatigue & returned to camp. On the morning of the 14th we had musketry at a miniature range & then went for a route march out towards rail head & in the afternoon we were inoculated & I received four letters. Next day we had to fall in at 10 am & were inspected by General Sueval the Ex Divisional Commander who
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March 1916
train took us right into the wharf & when we got out we had to wait till 1-30 am before we embarked on the S.S. Grampian Transport E620. It is an Imperial Transport & arrmed with a 6" gun. We pulled away from the wharf at 6am & sailed out the harbour. The harbour is a fair size & had a lot of Transport & naval boats in it & it also has a very big coaling stage & a break water. When we got out into the Meditterranean Sea twelve machine guns were added to the armament of the boat & everybody had to wear life belts at all times except when actually sleeping. The food was very poor on this boat & not sufficient, it had