Only one casualty came under my notice during this advance

TCD MS 10516 folio 30 verso

TCD MS 10516 folio 30 verso

[14th September 1916] the exposed and unprotected desert. Only one casualty came under my notice during this advance; it was a Ghurka in the machine-gun section shot through the abdomen; he was obviously in a hopeless state, and I heard afterwards that he died on reaching the field ambulance.
The mound being captured, I followed with my stretcher -squad in search of wounded. I soon reached the Arab position. It was strong in that, by its slight elevation, it dominated the plain; that its thick, thorny scrub successfully concealed those who held it; that it was intersected by deep nullahs which the Arabs has elaborated into more formidable defences by the addi[ti]on, here and there, of a shallow trench. In the nullahs I