Item 02: Leslie Kemnitz Stuart diary, 4 March-28 December 1916 - Page 95
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[Page 95]
[Sunday 26 March]
Today has seen the end of our three days train journey & I am quite sorry to have to leave it.
We passed the English channel at 7.30 & saw a liner which had been torpedoed lying quite close in with only the funnel & masts visible. After that we came to Calais & continued North to a little station called Thiennes, it is 35 kilometers from Ypres & about the same from La Bassee.
On our arrival here we did a 2 ½ mile march with full kit up to our billets in the Village of Boeseghem.
I had had nothing to eat except two biscuits at 6 A.M. we arrived at our billets at 2.30 P M & I was sent straight back, minus tucker, to the station as a guide. I got back about 4 p.m. & it was 7.15 before I got anything to eat.
I had just got nicely into bed, I had to go on guard at 11 p m, when I was taken off that & sent down to the station with Mac to wait for a certain train, due at midnight & guide a man to our camp. This is the life, I don't think.