TCD MS 10516 folio 3 verso
[12th July 1916] most annoying, but worst of all was the foetid smoke from the camp incinerators which were slowly encircling us and grossly offended our sense of smell when the evening grew still and calm. Just at dinner time when, in this heat, every effort was needed to stimulate the mildest appetite, there would be wafted across the camp such a repulsive stink of burning refuse that officers would sometimes have to flee from the table.
Temperatures now reach a daily maximum of 120°. The heat is almost unbearable; it crushes every mental and physical effort; I think it is the worst I have ever experienced; today there is not a breath of air, even on the embankment overlooking the river where we would feel the gentlest motion.
Our change of camp has brought us.