Item 01: T. J. Cleary diary, 8 March 1916 - 15 August 1917 - Page 55
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game is a good way of making money on a Troopship in this way it is easy to make a pound or two per day. On one occasion on the Peninsula D. Co. of the 8th was sniping A. Co. This mistake being due to the trench lines being irregular & very close together.
3rd June 1916 Saturday
We had a submarine scare yesterday a destroyer dashed away from our escort & almost immediately the alarm was sounded & all hand mustered at their boat stations. And there we stayed lifebelts & Boots as usual untill darkness came on (we had ½ hour for tea. in the meantime our O.C. addressed the company & said that bad news had been received & we were to hold ourselves ready to act coolly & quietly in the event of trouble. After the alarm had been sounded the Steamer started steaming at her best & Zig Zagging even more than usual which is saying a lot. Everything passed off O.K. & today we have lovely weather. We passed a big Battleship this morning The colonel made a speech this afternoon, he said that when we reached England we would hear bad news & would be appalled at the narrow escape we had had. I take this to mean that one of our