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| Semi-detached houses in Grove Road, Gosport cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Basher Eyre - geograph.org.uk/p/1372190 |
The convoy moved through Gosport and we halted in a street of private houses of the semi-detatched type. We had no idea how long we would be stopping there but it turned out to be a few hours. Women were coming out of quite a number of houses to give us tea, cake, bread and jam or anything they could spare. [Remember, they're already living with rationing.] I think they knew as much as we did, as to what we were in for. At last we drove off and as we turned the end of the road we had our first sight of the water. Our progress down the last hundred yards was very slow and we had time for a couple of glasses of lemonade that a woman brought out for us. On we went slowly but surely, and at last it came to our turn to get on the boat.
It was an L.S.T. [2] with double doors and ramp in the bow, two decks and all the super-structure set aft. We backed down the slip-way, up the ramp, down into the lower deck and on to the lift. We were carried aloft and then drove off to our correct position on the port bow.
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| Tanks Go Aboard the L.S.T. |
