Andrea Goetz, daughter Julia

We were met at Waterloo Station and taken to a Service Club in the west end of London: later that night we boarded a train, well blacked out. We travelled through the night to Greenock, Scotland. Nasty storm blowing couldn't get us out to the ship. Took us to Glasgow where we stayed we stayed on the top floor on an infirmary. Everyone was tired and weary, babies fussy.

The next morning after a surprise breakfast of bacon and eggs (very scarce at that time), we went to the ship an exchanged out gas masks for life jackets, U-boats were an ever present danger. We arrived in one of Halifax's famous fogs. We had to stay outside the harbour until it lifted. Next morning held the children up to see the lights - they had no idea what we were talking about as they had grown up in darkness. As that time there was a tunnel of trains. The ladies of Halifax lined the tunnel and were handing the children toys, gum, apples and candy. It was a lovely welcome.