Chapter 3  Sheffield City Battalion:  CHAPTER Three. The, Early
Days Abroad.   Alexandria Port Said: Suez Canal: Antics of the
Arabs Pleasant times.          SOON afterwards the division
received sudden orders to prepare for Egypt. Half the Battalion
rushed off from Larkhill for a short farewell leave, while the
other half marched back to Hurdcott, where leave was cancelled
and everyone recalled. There was a hurricane of work and
excitement, in which fever and influenza played apart.
Eventually the Battalion embarked on December 21st, 1915,   on
board H.M.T. Nestor (Blue Funnel Line), anchored at Devonport.
The Battalion was at full strength, the officers who also
embarked being: Lieut-Colonel J. A. Crosthwaite, Major T .
Carter Clough, V.D., Major A. Plackett, Major A. R. Hoette.
Captains W. A. Colley, D. C. Allen, E. G. G. Woolhouse, R. E. J.
Moore, A. N. Cousin, and W. S. Clark.          Lieutenants J. L.
Middleton, E. L. Moxey, C. Elam, G. H. J. Ingold, T. L. Ward, C.
H. Woodhouse, H. W. Pearson, R. D. Berry, F. W. S