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20 September 1915
Monday 48 wks from home
Spent rather a good night & the doctor who visited us early in the morning put me on to ordinary diet & now I ought to put on weight. All day the harbor has been very busy ships coming & going every hour, Lord Nelson & the Agamemnon look well standing out in the Straits in all Britain has 14 warships here & the French nine, Lord Brassy's yacht is fitted up as an Hospital Ship & she looks real well The Admiral's boat along with Gen Hamilton's arrived after lunch & harboured close alongside the quay Later on the admiral came ashore. Several nurses accompanied by several doctors off one of the hospital ships paid the camp a visit & after a general inspection they went on board again. After went for a short stroll up to the hill from where a beautiful view was obtained of the surrounding country & harbour, every hollow holds a rest camp for convalescents, dozens of them, Had a decent bit of lamp reading last night & again tonight.
21 September 1915
Tuesday
Had another splendid night & can now feel myself improving the food is also doing me good, my old skin is coming off in handfuls & at present I present rather a patchy appearance. A hydroplane off the Admirals boat has kept us amused all day by its never ending manoeuvres, 200 Turkish prisoners arrived & we hear that our Left closed in another 100 yards, after tea we were allowed to take a stroll of a couple of hundred yards so we paid a visit to the French who are stationed just below the hospital, they have enough stores on hand to run another war & they're still making provision for more, their troops are quartered in large sheds & canteen's figure everywhere their navy is very lax compared to ours & so is their army anything is good enough for them, 4 more troopers & 3 Hospitals boats arrived today the last named points to an engagement. Blasting has gone on all day here