TCD MS 10515 folio 6r
[Feb 23rd 1916] equipment checked; staff complete; stretcher bearers trained; everything prepared for its primary duty of removing wounded from the firing line. But day after day we remain ar Peshawar; the weeks follow one another without noteworthy incident; almost hourly we expect orders; each of the numerous telegrams is opened in expectation but orders to move never arrive. The movements of troopers, their arrival and departure from Bombay or Karachi was the most reliable basis on which we could place our speculations as the date of our leaving India. At last we seemed to gather the reason why our stay in India was prolonged. We learned that the 1st Battalion of the Regiment was on its way back to India. It had suffered severly in