They occasionally kill or wound a sentry;

TCD MS 10516 folio 15 recto

TCD MS 10516 folio 15 recto

Monday: August 7th 1916: Nasiriyah.
I return to Nasiriyah to find that the local Arabs have developed a more enterprising spirit. At night, when the moon goes down, they creep as close as possible to us our pickets and snipe at the patrols and sentries. The drying of the flooded land, the cooler climate and no doubt the religious zeal following the long Mahommedan fast is stimulating them to these efforts. They do no general damage; they occasionally kill or wound a sentry; they cause more annoyance than hurt. I think we were gently “strafing” their villages this morning as I heard far out in the desert the boom of persistent gunfire. My Sub-Assistant-Surgeon, Chowdhri Ram, has left for India today on one month’s leave. I have entrusted him with my zoological specimens