We used to watch at least 12 to 14 troop ships go out every
night, loaded with men and big ships with the guns and ammunition,
... but they used to take it all out in a combined unit at one
time. Halfway through the war they discovered it would be better to
send all horses in one ship, guns in another, and ammunition in
another and they found by doing that it was more economical because
if you go and lose the men and the ammunition and the horses and
guns all at once you were a losing perhaps an army who'd set out,
so they used to send the men separate, and the horses separate and
the guns separate and get it all organised in France. The most
depressing part of it always was to be night time and see so many
men going out all singing and cheering and really enjoying
themselves and the next morning you were dealt with hospital ships
coming back then, loaded with wounded.
