TCD MS 10516 folio 34 verso
[14th September 1916] with our noses to the ground for some five minutes while I devised a more ignominious but safer method of getting him to the shelter of the mound. None of us were specially desirous of carrying him boldly through the open, when, immediately we rose, the fire would become intense, so I thought it worth attempting to drag him over the ground, at any rate for some of the distance.
In addition to the wounded man there were some other riflemen scattered about; these I collected and we placed the wounded man on the stretcher and commenced to drag him along the ground. The Arabs were firing from both our front and left flank. The latter was the more severe and quite uncomfortable whenever anyone exposed himself. The dragging of the stretcher, while crawl-