"After a most calm & heavenly journey over oily blue seas - past lovely jagged islands & capes we sailed into Bizerta harbour about 4... The beauty of the way on this dazzling day was indescribable... We went on in motors to the site of Carthage - on the edge of a fabulously blue sea... Then came almost the most wonderful thing in the whole day. We arrived at a large open-field where about 4000 troops were drawn up..."