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Editor's note: The Australian Army nursing sister May Tilton composed The Grey Battalion from her war diaries, aiming to give a 'true' account of her 'trail with the warriors'. That trail took her first to Egypt, and later to the bloodbath of northern France, where she remarks that the composure of her colleagues under fire 'made me prouder of my sex than ever before'. Tilton had spent five years in a Launceston public hospital before feeling compelled to follow the Australian expeditionary force to the battle zones. She embarked on the Orontes at Port Melbourne in 4 August 1915.
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From Chapter II: The Voyage (5-9) and Chapter III: Egypt (22-23; 23-24)
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