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He had tendered his services to the Judge Advocate General 's department , but had heard nothing from his application . As a last opportunity he offered his services to the International Y and had been accepted . He arrived in New York on the night of August 27th and learned that his passport had been received , and he and three hundred and sixteen other Y men were to sail on September 1st . In the early morning of that date they boarded a train for Montreal , where they arrived past midnight and were marched aboard the Burmah , a British transport of seven thousand tons burden . At two a. m. they were given a meal of tea , bread , condensed milk , boiled potatoes and a most horrible sausage and told to turn in . As their bunks were hold hamocks , quite a few turned out . About daylight the thousand-mile journey down the St. Lawrence began .