Avenmouth to Shorncliffe3 Camp March 7 1915 Land at Avonmouth near Bristol & entrain 6 pm for Shorncliffe near Dover. Receive ovation from slums of London. Evidently thought we are bound for the Front. Arrive Shorncliffe 2 am & march in drizzling rain to Barracks. Large camp here with numerous brick barracks. Barrack 5. Two sections with washroom between. 27 men in our end. Iron cots as strong as a bridge. Iron shelf & box for each man. Lavatory facilities very antiquated. Shorncliffe suburb of Folkestone (35000) . Streets narrow and laid out by a crazy spider. Very little traffic. Almost no motorcars. Streetlamps burning only one jet & blackened upper half. Manuals. Route march & downtown in evening. Unfortunately get into a tony Italian restaurant & get nothing but a heavy bill for 1 1/2 hrs stay. Routine: Reveille 6am (Sunday 6:30) ,First parade 7-7:45, Breakfast 8, Sick parade 8:20 - 4:30, Co-orderly room 8:30 Batt orderly room 9:00, 2nd Parade 9:30, Dinner 1pm, Third Parade 2 pm, Supper 5, retreat 5:30 , first post 9:30, last post 10pm, lights out 10:15. Given No: 77947. Battalion drill & route march. Town full of Belgian refugees, many French Belgian