Item 04: G. O. Hawkins letters to his family, 2 January 1915-November 1917 - Page 153
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Including those given old battered guns of ours just landed for repairs
Where are they you ask
You wish to see them too
Well come with me
We pass out of the great shed onto the open wharf where the troop ship which is to take us to France presses close and leans like a massive grey wall
Spider framed cranes are here like giant insects from a greater world
They creep along the wharf in that narrow open length between a wall of sheds on one hand and a wall of ships on the other.
With a certain amount of clatter and fuss, but with weary ease they are hoisting great cumbersome motor waggons, fully loaded from the wharf to the troop deck high above.
Let us slip into the next shed to be out of the road for as well as the shipping of lumbered waggons, there are all sorts of things swinging