granting of final furloughs. Show-down inspections of clothing and equipment were the order
the day. Replacements were received and by the 15th of March the Regiment was up to battle
strength. On this day, the Regiment began moving by rail to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Here
final issues of clothing and equipment were made and final physical examinations conducted.
Only a very few failed to pass.
On the 22nd of March the Regiment moved to the New York port of embarkation and
boarded “HMS Dominion Monarch”, a 27,000 ton British ex-luxury liner which had been
converted into a troop transport and turned over to the United States Army by the British
government.
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