Trp Arthur Rouget (Wandin), 13^th Light Horse Regiment: In camp in Egypt. From his diary –‘We are told that we are going to Gallipoli as infantry and exchange our equipment for web. We dump all our saddles and leather equipment in a bag and put our names on it. We eventually get our web equipment together and our packs filled with the things we think we will need most and are ready for the fray, marching to Zeitoun station to entrain for Alexandria, getting aboard the Megantic. We have a good trip across as we are in cabins and have a dining room to have our meals in.

Reaching Lemnos, they issue us with fly veils, ammunition and our rations and then are transferred to a smaller boat, the Prince Abyaos. We give three cheers for the captain and crew of Megantic’.