17 Apr 1915 - Off to England at last!

At last, the men received the word they'd been impatiently waiting for, and on Saturday 17 April they embarked on board the R.M.T.S.S. Grampian, which had been tied up at the wharf in St. John harbour for the last couple of days, after dropping off a load of inbound passengers from England. They set sail on the following day, and would have had their first onboard church service that morning. The ship was a large one - some 10,000 tons - and there would have been many other 2nd Division troops on board as well, such as the 18th Battalion.

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