mpany; Pte. J. M'Cann, "A" Company; Sergt. J. Logan "A"
Company; Pte. J. Laird, "C" Company; Pte. T. Knight, "D" Company; Sergt.
D. Calder, "C" Company; Corpl. E. Stevenson, "B" Company, and Sergt. A.
Bain, "A" Company.

In connection with this tournament an incident occurred on the 19th
December, during the Battalion's attack. Captain Campbell had charge of
the football arrangements. In the middle of the battle, while sitting
more or less triumphantly in a captured Turkish trench, he received by
special messenger word from the Division that the Battalion team must
play the 5th R.S.F. the following day or be struck out of the
tournament. A triumph of departmental work.

While living in camp at Mudros efforts were made to improve generally
the feeding of officers and men, and as there were more canteens on the
island with greater variety of goods for sale than we had been
accustomed to on Gallipoli, our efforts met with a certain amount of
success. One day while Major Neilson was scouring the countryside he
came across several turkeys in one of the Greek canteens. One of these
was immediately purchased and brought back to camp. The next problem was
to find some one sufficiently skilled to dress the bird and prepare it
for the pot. Lieut. Graham volunteered to carry out the work and really
made an excellent job of it. The cooking was done in the lid of a camp
kettle over an open fire and everyone who tasted the turkey that night
at dinner voted it a great success.

About a week after our arrival at Mudros, Major Findlay left in charge
of the Brigade advance party for Alexandria, and about a fortnight later
Captain Buchanan, Captain Campbell and Lieut. Barbe also went on in
advance. The day after Major Findlay left, orders were issued that the
Battalion was to embark the following day, but as was very often the
case under similar circumstances, when the camp was struck these orders
were cancelled and it was not until the last day of January that the
Battalion embarked on _H.M.T. Briton_, which also carried the 7/8th
Scottish Rifles and the 6th East Yorks with Colonel Morrison as O.C.
troops.

Three days later the transport arrived at Alexandria, but did not dock
until the following day late in the afternoon. About 8 o'clock that
night disembarkation was carried out and a few hours later the Battalion
had entrained and left Alexandria for Cairo.

The Brigade advance party had made all the arrangements for the camp at