Ralph started Diary Three on the 22nd November and has the least amount of entries in it. With Ralph writing entries on how bitterly cold the weather was on the Gallipoli peninsular, with the rain and snow that they were subjected to, with temperatures as low as 12o below at times.

On the 29th November the heaviest days bombardment for a long time was sent over from the ‘Turks’ with Ralph writing that they had been subjected to a barrage of 8.2 H.E. Howitzer shells that had smashed ‘Lone Pine’ about and had caused very heavy casualties. On the 1st December the ‘Turks’ again bombarded ‘Lone Pine’, but stopped firing after about two hour’s then Ralph was to receive an order that evening to get a party away to ‘Lemnos Is’ to pick up guns and ammunition, which he did.

The following day Ralph and the Bty were to spend all day packing and were expected to leave that night for ‘Embros Is’ unfortunately they were still at ‘ANZAC’ cove awaiting transport on the 3rd, but they finally received orders to leave camp at 9.30, so they walked down to ‘Walker’s Landing’ via ‘Walker’s Ridge’ to get aboard a semi-trawler and left shore at 12.30 to arrive at ‘Embros Is’ at 5.30 and ‘camped in tents again.

Ralph had a great time while he was on ‘Embros Is’ with the entries that he had placed in his diary, settling into camp life again after spending so much time on the ‘Gallipoli’ peninsular as well as being a ‘novel experience not to have to dodge shells or bombs’. Ralph entered into his diary on the 6th that he was able to get a good view of the battleships shelling ‘Achi Baba’ and ‘ANZAC’ cove, and that he had just received orders to reveille (awaken military personnel and to alert them for assembly) at 5am the following morning and to leave ‘Sarpi Camp, Nudros West’ and to await embarkation orders, which came on the 7th.

While on board the TBD ‘Chelmer’ heading for ‘Lemnos Is’ a warning was issued that a hostile aeroplane was about so the gun crews got ready for an attack that never eventuated. Arriving at ‘Lemnos Is’ on the 8th the Bty was ordered to ‘Nudros W’ camp to arrive at 8pm after a great trip across. The guns were landed on the 10th along with the rest of the party. Ralph spent his time visiting the villages, watching football matches or even continuing with the Bty's training, keeping fit by going out for a run. On the 15th the Bty played the Engineers at football with Ralph reporting that he had received ‘both knees minus skin, ditto repeat ankle and nose and a swollen lip’, but they won 9 to 0. Ralph had to visit the doctors on the 18th due to his knee looking like a ‘squashed plum pudding’ which got him exempt from any duty.

On the 23rd the Light Horse left for Egypt, Ralph was then issued with small arm ammunition so he expected to be on the move shortly back to Egypt so the Bty spent all afternoon packing. Orders arrived the next day that they would be leaving on Boxing day so on the 30th they received further orders that they were to pack up and get out so they left camp (under a general Gallipoli evacuation order) at 7.45 and embarked via ‘Sapper Pier’ and got aboard SS ‘Tunisican’ and awaited orders to leave port. This came on the 31st at 4am with the ship picking up a escort, a light cruiser as submarines had been reported as being around so they Zig Zaged all day. Another submarine was reported off the Port bow the following day so they started doing evolutions to avoid it.

They were at present heading SE to S which meant ‘Alexandria’ to which they arrived off at 6.30am on the 2nd. They got to the wharf at 9.00am and got orders to disembark at 9.30. On the 3rd the Bty arrived at Tel-el Kebir and walked about a mile and a half to their camp. Ralph was to then have a look at myself in a mirror, the first look he had had for some considerable time, about a month and had a shock, as he looked the biggest he had seen and could push the scales up to 13 stone and was as brown as a nigger (Egyptian beggar). Ralph was to remain at Tel-el Kebir for at least the next 3 to 4 weeks.