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20 May
Parade in full marching order. Bayonet drill. Issued with pay books and identity discs. Weather calm and warm.
21 May
Sports & concert. Tug-or-war between "D" and "B" D1. See a large black fish. Heavy swell on. Ragtime fight between "Spud" Murphy and McGregor.
22 May
Fire alarm. Stand-to boats. Gunners practice with 4" guns.
23 May
Church parade on boat deck, church service on well deck. Squally weather.
24 May
Coy. on duty, am with a fatigue party hauling spuds out of the hold. See a shoal of flying fish. Dead calm and sultery. Boxing match between Gorpy v Dawson. Brown v Brown and a Keystone fight between "Spud" Murphy & MacGregor. Blue Tindall sang "Amunition Van" etc.
25 May
Steamer stops for gun practice. Pass Cocos Island. Write home.
26 May
Calm weather.
27 May
Overhaul the troop ship "Sontay". The "Sontay" left Sydney 2 days before us with a load of French Reservists.
28 May
Parade in full marching order. Cross the "Line". Sports & a concert.
29 May
222 miles from Colombo. "A" Coy. for duty. Am on as deck sweeper.
30 May
Coaling at Colombo. Route march through the town. Sail at 8 p.m.
31 May
See the most Southern point of India at 8 a.m. Coast in sight all day. Rifle drill and lectures.
1 June
Pay day.
2 June
Funeral of Pte. Manning.
3 June
Kings birthday. No Parade. Write home.