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<p class="page" id="a2364065">[Page 65]</p><p>about 300 altogether was equipped with all neccesserys, clothing etc and left Monte video camp Weymouth at midnight Tues 6/6/16 and marched to the station with full kit and equipment. the band came with us that far. it woke up the whole neiborhood at that late <strike>of</strike> hour of the night. people had lighted candles poking out of high windows others were running out of their houses with night shirts on only and there was a great crowd in the streets who got wind we were leaving and waited up to see us off. left Weymouth station in a troop train about one oclock in the morning. and arrived at Folkstone at 9 AM after eight hours on the train. and went to a rest camp just on the coast. to await the departure of the boat. waited there till 2.30 same afternoon during which time quite a large number of troops arrived. British tommies and Scotchmen all on their way to france. at 2.30 all left tis camp and marched up to the pier. about ¼ hours march and boarded a boat which left at 3.40 same afternoon for Bolougne France and after an hour and Half run across the English chanell which was very rough we arrived at 5 oclock</p>