TCD MS 10516 folio 51 verso
[22nd September 1916] orious progress. It is easy to understand the difficulties to be faced in supplying a division with stores, equipment and ammunition when the line of communication includes a treacherous lake, navigable only by native bellums, exposed to the attacks of hostile Arabs living on its banks, and with as much as three days strenuous journey between two of its posts. Heard almost immediately on arrival at Hakika, that Harrington had been awarded the D.S.O. and myself the Military Cross for our work during the operations of the 11th. September. Pleased and surprised at the news. It is gratifying to know that one can face the music with credit and that one is labelled against an accusation of timidity. But I wonder if I deserve it. I know that, on that day, I never put my head over a nullah, or peeped