It was just like confinement

Very little happened. Only a few times we got a scare from a submarine and got called out in the middle of the night ready to take life boats because of submarines, but we never got hit. We had a good convoy. They encountered no mishaps on the way over. It took us seven days to go over. In Liverpool, we didn’t get a chance to see it at all because they got us out of there so fast. Then they took us to Bramshott and we were in what they called a segregation camp for three weeks. Made sure we hadn’t brought any foreign diseases with us, and so on. It was just like confinement, we weren’t allowed out of camp for all that length of time. That’s where they trained us for endurance test and long marching and what have you. That’s where it was decided who could go to France and who couldn’t, more or less. But they gave us then, that was in early June, and they kept us there then til, oh I think it was about the first of October before we got away. We weren’t very happy with it, but you know, they kept us alive and it was solitude. Nobody was very happy with it. We had trouble with a recruit there but we were under obligation to do as we we’re told.