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Accordingly on Tuesday, 21st March, after standing about for several hours in full pack as is the custom in the Australian army, we marched out & after a bivouac of several hours by the side of the canal entrained or rather entrucked for Alexandria. After a rather cold & uncomfortable trip we arrived at our destination at 10 a.m. & embarked on Z23, the Canurder [Cunarder ?] "Ivernia". We sailed for Marseilles at 4 p.m. the usual Submarine watches being set. Bedding arrangements were, on this boat, far in advance of any other troopship, most of us being quartered in four-berth cabins. But she lacked in food what she made up in accommodation, & as there was no canteen aboard, things were rather on the hungry
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