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villages with their date palms & curious sights, & at 4 p.m. we arrived at the centre of the Old World of the Greeks – Alexandria. The trains take you right on to the wharf where the grey troop ship (formerly the P & O "Borda") awaits already packed seemingly to overflowing. However the 8th of the 2nd Batt. get in & somehow hundreds of others follow. Hundreds of other ships lie here. Hospital ships white with a green stripe running their entire length, are unloading wounded, others awaiting their turn; coal hulks & oil tanks, dozens of transports, all like our own with their grey hulks awaiting to take on their complement of troops; a couple of warships with the French tricolour hanging at their mast-head.
There is a constant movement of troops going on here. We