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children, who are inveterate cadgers, breasted the embankment along the line for cakes and pennies. Most of the women looked sad and careworn. After travelling some distance we passed through cities of tents, accommodating all branches of the Imperial & Dominion troops, past hospitals & graves cemeteries until at last we were dumped off at a point close to the sea.
We were marched to a storehouse where rifle & bayonets, spick & span & greased, were served out with great celerity, & finally we reached our training camp where we were to get a final polish up before going onto the front line. This camp was separated from the town of Etaples (called by all soldiers "Etaps") by a stream