months of drill and medical l

d our camp at Basingstoke. Here we had two or three months' divisional training. Th

of times. It amused me to hear the men grumbling about the hard ground, and to see them rubbing their hips when they got up. It was a hard

e inspected by the King, a

and khaki drill uniforms, and the

ere going to East Africa... some one even men

rained at Basingstoke and taken down to the docks

us, and it would astonish a civilian to see the amount of stores and Red Cross materials