Item 01: Ralph Ingram Moore letters, 10 February 1907-15 March 1918 - Page 354
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Australian Intermediate Depot
Abbey Wood
30.4.16
My dear Mother,
The only letter of yours I got this week was one dated Nov 1st 1915. Fancy it turning up after such a long time. It is one that you had addressed to Gibraltar.
I must tell you about last Tuesday. It was a wonderful day and I would not have missed the procession and the service at the Abbey for anything. We had to start from camp early, entrained at Abbey Wood and detrained at Waterloo Junction. But entraining and detraining was done in fine style. The men were drawn up in fours on the Station facing the carriages. On the bugle sounding a single G two lots of four marched into each compartment. Seven hundred men were aboard in less than half a minute. The same thing with the detraining. Not a man attempted to get out of the train until the bugle sounded. Half a minute after that the whole body of men were ready to march off. The men bore themselves throughout the day in the same splendid