Seasick

There was a real blow on in the channel that night. And some of us that got in, there’s Walter Eddie, and Norm and Gordon McClellan, Bob Cole, and a few others there, and we laid round in the middle of the ship right where there would be less roll in there than any where else. But I remember on our way over we left Hopestone and got off at Le Havre, but there was a lot of them sick. I remember Walter Eddie, he was right close to me and he says, “Norm, Norm, don’t do that, I got a bean in my ear.” He told me Norm had puked on him. At Le Havre we got up, we climbed those steps up there, I believe it’s only 190 steps but they’re all up and walking up there is the biggest job, because after getting off especially the fellas that was sick. I remember helping somebody and I was feeling pretty good myself. It might have been Temple his name was. He was pretty rolly you know and we had our full marching kit on then, all our equipment was carried. I think we was there, might have had two days, not any more than that before they was due up the line and back in at Ypres Salient. We started out from Running Hurst (sp) and went up through the centre, started out via train, French train, and they took us up the lines. It was before dark. We had quite a little ways to go from where we was billeted. And the Germans started throwing over a bunch of shells at us so the train had to quit. One thing I noticed though, there was a lot of duds in those shells.