TCD MS 10853 folio 106 recto
Dug out in the Norfolk Trench. When the shelling was over (and I only was hit; the two other men Cromer and Platt were buried in that same dug out where I had been, with almost the same shell but were all right when they were dug out). I was carried down the communication trench past D Company who were interested to see who was hit. I saw Jack and Dud and told them I was going to Blighty and soon I was at the Dressing Station. Here I was quickly attended to by the M.O. of the Norfolks. Fortunately some of our fellows were in the farm buildings near by, being on fatigue work and many came in to see me and Ernie Jones brought me a cup of tea, which was most acceptable, for loss of blood and the wound had made me terribly thirsty. Well I had quite a