16th Battalion soldiers on the deck of the HMTS Maidan arriving off the coast of France. The ship had left Avonmouth Dock, Bristol with a destroyer escort on 11 February, 1915. The Battalion arrived off the coast of France at St. Nazaire the next day. The "Maidan" was a Brocklebank boat of 8,205 tons. She carried a crew of 18 Europeans and 79 native seamen. She was engaged in the transport of troops and munitions from southern ports in England to northern ports in France from August, 1914, to May, 1916. This photo is from the album of Marshall Beck.