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his hand , eveer -e nwdly for his l oat boot , anct.het- compliment s you f or standing on
his toes, tho Orderly Ser-geant, keep s binding officloual y t hrough the flap of yoor
tent, "Come on, show a ,leg"l Then somebody unknown buri es hi s hee d 1n Ii b'l anket ,
ceuedng qui t e a lot of unp l ea sant ness . You need a hea d In a place like t oot . A
few hour-a mud trotting and ve all vou'l d feel equal to a good br e8kfast , unnece se-,
ary to state that we usufillly received a good one.
At Lark Hl 11 , a ffOV miles from Bustard , Cana di an Engdn eer-s were busily engag-,
ed 1n building \linter Imts for the troops; Newfoundland was well represented here
~= b.L s:ix~y-~~~n~~; i-vit?~_~h:~ tlki B .od .~~p~o!i~i r;e d ) •.~ J =:;:~..:-~;:: ..;.., _; ..... ~~_
Tho mud at Lar-k Hi l l was far wor se than at an y ot her place , and it vas next
to impo ssible to crORS a r-oad unless y ou had a pair of II encv sh oe s" .
\le 'Were no t sorr y when the neve came of our i ntended t.r-anafer- to For t George ,
IIaway up in the Hfe Iande't ,
An advance guar-d of b ..enby-f'Lve menj mye eIf included, and
with Capt . OIBr i en 1n cOmUlQnd, left the Pl ain ~ one day ahead of the battalion t o
get t hings ready at the Fort. Fi f t een mil e s on a Canadi an Motor Lorry , e'tandtng
all the time, was no joy ride, and I
va e jolly gl ad vhen Salisbury Ci t y WQS
reached and we vere ebke to se t.t.Le dow 1n t he co sy cabins of a train on t he
LOndon and South-Wer;tern RQil'AY . The L. & S .W. Ry , we built for comfort, and we
enjoyed "Jil.ll 'that," on our t hree - hour run to London . nine O' Cl ock we landed at
Waterloo Stat1on, then tJil.k1ng t he "underground" f or King l s Cro ss.
Our appearance
of bot h of t.he se pl ac e s ca u sed an unusual amount of curiosity, as we carried \lith
u s the muddy tc-ade mark of t he Pl ains.
Neverthelees we su cce eded In get ting
through all right, and
a few minutes later we 'Were quietly enjoying tea in a nearby
restaurant.
At eleven ve left Kin g' s Cross Stat ion and 'Went speed Northward on our 811-
night trip through Eng.land ,
At five in the morning ve r-eached NewC8stle-on-Tynej