It is satisfactory to know that for the most part they arrived safely in India, and, though none the better for their voyage, were able to do good service afterwards. In spite of all it was not an exhilarating voyage. Very little was known to the Regiment about the prospect before them, and not much about what was going on in France. [Illustration: Lieut. BASH. H. WILLIAMS, M.C. (_Wounded in France with 11th Hussars, 31st October 1914_)] [Illustration: Lieut. M. H. C. DOLL (_Wounded near Authuille, 11th September 1915_)] [Illustration: Lieut. T. E. LAWSON-SMITH (_Killed with the 11th Hussars, near Messiner, 1st November, 1914_)] [Illustration: Capt. J. O. OAKES] [Illustration: Capt. A. M. SASSOON, O.B.E., M.C.] [Illustration: Lieut. W. P. CRAWFORD-GREENE] [Illustration: Capt. S. V. KENNEDY, M.C.] _Captain Eve--Suez._--“As soon as we arrived yesterday we heard the push had started and that we had got through on a front of twenty-five miles, but we didn’t get the telegrams with any details till the afternoon: let us only pray we may do as well as we hope.” Alas! it was a vain prayer. There were to be many “pushes” before the final one two years later. _July 14._--“We get to the end of our march to-morrow. I needn’t tell you how glad we shall be. It has seemed desperately long--very different to when going the other way. We are all very fit and flourishing.” A later letter describes the voyage in more detail, and may be worth quoting as an example of war-time voyages. “We went by ourselves, but had various kinds of escorts through the Mediterranean: sometimes a destroyer, sometimes a sham tramp steamer, really of course armed with guns, and sometimes with no visible escort at all; and we went the most peculiar way, all round the west and south sides of Corsica and Sardinia, south of Malta, north of Crete, then south and zigzagged about a lot before making Port Said. I believe a ship was sunk off the north-east corner of Crete not long before us. I think our sham tramp steamers are the most lovely things. Of course we had all lights out, ports closed, no smoking after dark, and great discomfort, and heaps of guards and submarine look-outs, and it was very hot but mostly very calm. However, all this ended at Port Said, where also they took off our gun and gunners.... We left at 10 P.M. and went through the Canal very slowly, stopping a long time in the lakes. The camps and trenches had increased enormously, the most perfect trenches now, and huge camps. It is quite a sight, very strong, and there must be a large force in Egypt now. They looked wonderfully fit, and yelled to us to know where we were going, but we would not say.”