NOFU Clyde Sutton letter

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                Departure Date: (home) June 25,1941 Montreal July 7,1941
                Port of Departure: Montreal
                Name of Ship: Mendoza
                Port of Arrival: Liverpool
                Date of Arrival: July 28,1941
                Number of Forresters in Contingent: Approximately 225
                Officer in Charge: Bela Randall
                Other Information:
                The Bay D'Espoir men left June 25,1941 on the S.S. Burgeo, 84 in number. Leo F. Collier was in charge. We went directly to North Sydney where we met with men from central Newfoundland, the Burin Peninsula and Trinity Bay. We boarded the train at Sydney on June 26th, and went directly to Montreal and were there for nine days, billeted in Motordrum Barracks. On Sunday evening July 7th. we boarded the ship (Mendoza). We left Montreal on Monday morning and sailed down the St. Lawrence River, arriving in Halifax on Friday evening. We were there for one or two hours and then left to join the convoy. There were 98 ships in the convoy, arriving in Liverpool late in the afternoon of July 28, 1941. Immediately after arrival, we boarded the train and arrived in Newtonmore Scotland the next morning. Most of the men went to Camp 6, Kinlochlaggan, some to Camp 7 and others to Camp 4.

                Other men in charge:John Legge (3201) of Heart's Content, Trinity Bay (died overseas)
                                                     Donald Stacey (3300) of Lories, Burin Peninsula
                                                     Le Collier (3331) of Bay D'Espoir 2d.Lt. Home Guard
                                                     Bela Randall of Central Newfoundland