TCD MS 10516 folio 43 verso
[14th September 1916] take on board 56 more at Junction Camp, making a total of an even 100. None of the cases from Nasiriyah were serious so, after seeing them comfortably settled, I spent a few hours writing in my journal my reminiscences of our scrap.
At Junction Camp 8 bellums were awaiting me; some busy hours were spent distributing the sick, allotting hospital personnel, dividing rations, comforts, stores as usefully as possible in the different bellums.
A huge fire was visible away to the east, black columns of smoke ascended high into the sky. We thought that some large villages must be ablaze or that the marsh reeds were in conflagration.
My eight bellums, with their 100 sick, dropped rapidly down stream to Hakika, a small post at the entrance to the Hamar lake. There I found one