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[14th September 1916] cross the open. After a lapse of about five minutes, I followed with the other half of the squad. Before joining them, I found one of our subedars with a bullet through his shoulder. He treated it as a huge joke, was full of laughter and quite able to walk back. I sent him to the rear. I then recieved a message from Harington saying that some wounded were reported in the advanced sections of the firing line. I left all my stretcher-bearers but four with the supports and took two stretchers forward. The position of the wounded men was indefinite, the enemy’s fire was uncomfortably severe so I could not attempt to bring in the wounded men without some idea of their locality. I waited with Harington and Gladstone in a shallow trench; the Arabs were about 500 yards distant, they main-