Lieut Hungerford gave me a whiskey & soda

TCD MS 3414 folio 51 recto

TCD MS 3414 folio 51 recto

[September 1915]

to use it and is a strong man, who is willing to risk the loss of a C.B for the comfort of his wounded by stating that no operation could come off as the medical arrangements were totally inadequate – what General would not back him up and forward his representation to the Government concerned? “No, Surgeon General Halterway, you were evidently brought up by the Administrative branches of the Indian Army amongst whom favouritism is a byword & a strong man is considered an obstructionist likely to revolutionise the sluggish life of that snuggery. Firstly you thought of yourself and your own advancement, & secondly if ever, the comforts of the wounded men under your care.”

I arrived late that night at Clareys Post with the transport and Lieut Hungerford gave me a whiskey & soda & some supper, I was dead tired and I soon turned in and slept like a log. At 3 a.m. the next day 29th Sept I rode out and found the two Brigades where they had halted the night before, about one & a half miles from the river, arriving there at daybreak just in time  to mark out a landing ground