TCD MS 10516 folio 30 recto
[14th September 1916] equipment in charge of an orderly, not unloaded as I anticipated that the enemy would soon be driven from his stronghold and the Field Hospital was sufficiently advanced to evacuate wounded from the firing-line direct to it.
I soon had an excellent view of the effect of our fire on “thorny-mound”. It appeared as though nothing could live on it. Shrapnel and bullets rained heavily on it, raising, at every burst, innumerable clouds of dust. The Arabs must soon have found it untenable; they occupied natural channels on the mound, and, as we battered them, they escaped along communicating water courses to other deep nullahs further in their rear. The position of the Arabs was strong; they had the advantage of a network of channels; we enjoyed