Coming into Southampton you've got the main street to the docks,
then you had ... you've got St Mary's street, then of course you
had the road round the shore. On the first three days of the War,
the First World War, those three streets were a never ending line
of troops, I don't think there was a break in the line, they were
goin' all night. And on one day I was stood on, the south side of
the Bargate there and a little body of troops came through and they
had a young Officer in the front leading them, and they were
marching through you see, because most of them marched in those
days, and he called me, I was stood there watching 'em you see, he
said to me 'how would I get to the docks', so I tried to tell 'im
you see and like a kid I 'spose I wasn't very explicit, so he said,
'well you show me', so I said, 'alright', and I marched along with
them all the way to the docks with these troops (laughs).
