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Tuesday 23rd Dec 1914 This is the start of perhaps the most adventurous period of my life, perhaps and it is even very likely the last period. I say the start, because though it is now 3 months since we took the momentous step and embarked on a soldiers life soldiering career, yet for the first time we may be said to have really begun the game in deadly earnest, for the remainder has been all preparation, hard preparation it is true and a ceaseless round of real hard work, but yet only preparation and not the real thing.
This is written on the troopship, the SS Ulysses on board of which there are some 2000 of us perched, and we are now outside Port Philip in beautifully calm weather steaming along slowly, for where we have not the slightest conception. But let me begin at the beginning.
On the 9th Sept it was that F. Leans's & myself presented ourselves at Victoria Barracks, Sydney, to enter a new life, and formed into line with as motley a crowd as it is possible to imagine.