We embarked from huge sheds

TCD MS 10853 folio 59 recto

TCD MS 10853 folio 59 recto

[1915]
hard and we had to stand in it for 3½ hours at Canterbury West Station.  Entrained for Southampton at 2 p.m.  Sailed about six.   Transport very crowded.  Not a soul saw us off, not a wave of a handkerchief “not nothing” as un-romantic a way of setting out to fight for one’s Country and the right etc. etc., as one would wi[s]h for.
We embarked from huge sheds and the public were totally excluded from the neighbourhood.  We were guarded by four destroyers and had an uneventful passage and arrived at Harve on a beautiful February morning.