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20/4/16 Thursday
Very cold last night. Pay day – as it was a £2 pay the lads consider themselves well off – Attended a lecture at Y.M.C.A at night on Discipline etc. At 6 pm we got marching orders to march over to No. 1 A.S. Hospital – which is only a couple of camps away – Camped their overnight – Orders to move at in the morning to some unknown destination.
21/4/16 Friday
Good Friday - & well myself & 150 A.M.C. men that moved out from Telekebar will remember it. At 9.30 am after a severe medical examination, we boarded a Hospital-train which runs along the Canal daily – Our destination was Ishmailia – here we got out & had to carry our home or anything we wanted with us, that is blankets – etc, – 48 hours rations, water, etc, it was beastly hot & talk about dust. We marched from Ismailia to Ferry Post – crossing the Suez Canal by hand Ferry, we arrived at our destination