TCD MS 10515 folio 2v
[Jan. 22nd 1916] overseas. This news seeming too good to be true, was either disbelieved or treated with scepticism by the other officers. Eventime, however proved its truth when official instructions arrived to proceed to mobilize. I spent the afternoon examining both battalions for physical fitness. The 2/6th seem a lustier lot than ours. Needless to say all are delighted at the fact that we leave on service and do something that will really make us feel that we are taking a more active place in the great drama, a place more befitting a regular unit of trained soldiers. Nevertheless I rather wish our destination was Egypt or East Africa instead of Mesopotamia. The hot weather is approaching, a season almost insufferable in these desert regions that