SS Onward at Boulogne
Tuesday 27th July: Just before two o’clock yesterday afternoon the 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, raised in August 1914 for the duration of this war, left Codford Saint Mary in Wiltshire, where it had been training on Salisbury Plain. The 31 officers and 820 other ranks arrived by train at Folkestone at 8.30 yesterday evening and embarked, with 54th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, on SS Onward. On arrival at Boulogne late last night they marched to a rest camp at Ostronove. So, with no fanfare from its home county, this unit has gone into the unknown to do its part in this war.
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