TCD MS 10516 folio 41 recto
[14th September 1916] By 3 p.m. bullets ceased to follow us, an occasional stray one might sing overhead but the general fire had ceased. The heavy old Howitzer in Nasiriyah belched forth a few of her heavy shells on the enemy some four miles distance.
As they shrieked overhead, they were as alarming as the fire of the Arabs.
The battle was over; the regiment reformed, less eleven killed, twenty five wounded and one missing. It was strange how the fate of the last was unknown. He was last seen running back from the firing line with a shattered hand shouting “ow, ow”. He must have been killed while returning to the rear. We were but three miles from camp and arrived tired and thirsty.
With regard to the general results of this scrap with a crafty foe which cost us 190 casualties, I can only speak for what I myself saw. I have not the slightest