on arr'l in London did some more shopping. Thunder storm. Leicester Square. Caught 5.20 from Charing X heaps of officers + men far end of platform. Reported at Otterpool as ordered + told to stand by. Found Mjaor Pym, Pem, Andrews, Biard, Duke 2 Mackenzies, Day (just marr'd) Morkill, Greaves, Eliot + Bridgman. Camp deserted save for 2 NCOs + a dozen men. [illegible][illegible] promiscuous. Slept in my old tent.

Sat'dy July 8 Hot. No orders for us. Baird left. Wrote lrs home. Sent off my luggage to Hethersett for Carleton. Mrs. W. Langley + Mrs Eliot visited camp. Offrs + men leaving for camps. 300 of our men left Lydd for Folkestone.