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one meets with a mishap generally two more follows & as he had had two in succession, another one was for him, then it was someone else's turn, as it so happened before we finished. After putting the damaged truck into a Siding, we all started away again & everything went well right into Boulogne arriving there at 5 Pm. on the reaching the Main Yard our Train was required to proceed further to Bassin Lubie, another Yard along the Wharves towards the [indecipherable], we had a Pilot Shunter with us & had to go very slowly along several Streets & Wharves where the Traffic was very busy, Soldiers & Civilians in crowds going to & fro also Horses & Carts Motor Cars & Wagons in large numbers, we passed numbers of boys going towards the Docks on leave & numbers were returning, & what a Contrast, the boys returning were all so neat & clean & the boys going dressed anyhow, clothes shabby & dirty, some wearing their Steel Helmets, as they had lost their Caps & Hats, Trousers & Puttees all torn, but still all smiling & in a happy mood, looking forward to a Bon Holiday over the Pond in Blighty, these place is a real eyeopener to anybody