I saw one man ask for his papers at the Gare de l'Est this afternoon, where with incredible assurance he was watching the entraining of French troops.
By the 21st the whole Brigade group was completely out of the line and the following day moved to the new area, the Battalion entraining at Doullens at 11.
One would allow a move for entraining and another for detraining, requiring the troops to be massed alongside the train at the beginning and end of each journey, and the train might move at four or five times the cavalry rate.
They did not complete the entraining until the early hours of the 30th, and then only to find the line blown up in front of them.
The Battalion was given an enthusiastic send-off at Dore and Beauchief Stations on 10th August, when entraining for Salisbury Plain, the scene of their next training ground.
The relief was successfully completed and the remnants of the Battalion reached "Hilltop Farm" in the early morning, entraining later for Hospital Camp in the Vlamertinghe area.
The Brigade concentrated at Villers-Bretonneux prior to entraining for the Second Army.
The Jocks entraining on their departure from the French zone were a memorable sight.
We arrived at a spot where there was no station, and found troops entraining and going off in the direction of Warsaw.
It was crowded by soldiers; and field artillery were entraining in large numbers.
Since before entraining it is necessary to push in the sponsons until they are flush with the sides of the tank, the order involved unloading the sponsons at railhead, pushing them in and then loading the tanks again.
Entraining and detraining provide searching tests of a tank's mechanical efficiency and the skill of a crew.
Our entraining at Pont St Maxence began with a carouse and ended with a cumulative disappointment.
Finally, however, an entraining officer was appointed with the usual complement of N.
Definite orders had been received for the 47th Division to be transferred to the Italian front, and more than once during the stay at Auchel the Civil Service Rifles actually received entraining orders.
Entraining lasted all night, the mules and buck-waggons giving a lot of trouble.
Marched down to station, and wereentraining guns, waggons, horses, etc.
Béthisy St Pierre, where the Bedfords and Norfolks and ourselves halted, whilst the Dorsets and Cheshires pushed on to Verberies, so as to save time for the entraining on the morrow.
The French entraining orders are that all troops have to be at the station four blessed hours before the train starts, so as to give time to load up properly.
This is the French system, allowing four hours for the entraining of a unit.
At the same time, owing to the necessities of the railway service, it is not possible to commence entraining before the afternoon of October 5th.
On the thirteenth he began entraining Longstreet's troops for Gordonsville.
Next day he was entraining at Warrenton Junction when the men, among whom he was immensely popular, broke ranks and swarmed round his car, cursing the Government and swearing they would follow no one but their "Old Commander.
Marched to Noeux les Mines, entraining for Lillers, thence marching to Allouagne.
Leave La Cloche and march to Esquebecq, entraining there at 8.
Marched to Enquin les Mines via Flechin and Cuhen, entraining to Fervin.
Then at railway stations near to arsenals, and at important strategical centres, specially long platforms were provided to allow of the rapid entraining of men or material in case of need.
Confusion and delays at the railway stations during the entraining of the troops were rendered the more complete because the railway staffs failed to get an adequate degree of support from the military authorities.
It will readily be seen that this arrangement involved a considerable amount of labour, and rendered the process of entraining an extremely lengthy one; this led to an improved form of sponson being produced for the Mark IV machine.
Rail movements require special trucks, and, in the early days of the Corps, special sidings and entraining ramps.
These would all have to be assembled not at suitable entraining stations, as is usually the case, but at various training areas so that co-operative training with the infantry could take place.
Entraining and detraining and embarking must be done in absolute silence.
The men were not yet very skilled atentraining horses, and one company omitted to look to the bolts of the door on the far side of its truck.
Deputy-Assistant Director of Railways in this district, happened to be in the station with his armoured train, and dashed off as soon as the reports reached us, afterentraining some of the Derbyshire as escort.
Entraining for Springfontein, the force started thence with another convoy for the east of the line on the 27th of March.
Smaldeel was reached on the 30th, and there the convoy was left, the five companies entraining for Bethulie, where a great concentration was taking place in view of De Wet's intended raid into Cape Colony.
There was manifest among all ranks an eagerness to leave nothing undone that would in any way facilitate entraining and embarkation.
The task of entraining a large body of men was expertly accomplished, and after a brief delay we were speeding in the direction of the port of embarkation.
The day after my last long letter I left Chaumont with another girl to go to an entraining point just out of Gondrecourt, where we were to serve chocolate to the departing troops.
I was to "hike" with my platoon over to Les Laumes, the entraining point, a distance of five kilometres.
The entrainingwork at the railhead left us a great deal of spare time, and we decided to open a little "Y".
I left Pouillenay for three days and went to Epoisse, the entraining point, to help serve cocoa and cakes to the departing soldiers.
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