Slavery is abolished in British Guiana. Friday 1 August 1834, It was a public holiday and many Africans who were now Christians attended religious services. Others danced in their homes, in their yards and in the streets and the merry-making continued late into the night. But a rude shock awaited all the ex-slaves early the following morning when they were ordered back to the fields and other workplaces. This caused great confusion since they failed to understand how they could have gained their freedom and still be forced to work in their detested old posts. But this condition was part of the Emancipation Act - an Apprenticeship period of six years - where the freed slaves were compelled by law to serve their old masters just as they had done when they were slaves.

WAR-TIME EXPERIMENTAL POST OFFICES.

One of 772 Transports used for the sick, in conjunction with Army HOSPITAL SHIPS.

Requistioned by the Admiralty as a trooper and served as such until she was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 27 May 1918 in a convoy bound for Marseilles. Capt E F Holl DSC. Many troop carriers were known to carry a few injured back from France to England