TCD MS 10515 folio 65r
[May 1st 1916]
be an advance guard, a rear guard and two flank guards. So away over the trackless desert with not an object in sight and the whole brigade covering many square miles in its’ extended formation, enveloped in the dense clouds of dust raised from off the desert by the tramp of many feet. How vast it all seems! This unbroken landscape, limited only by the sinking of the heavens to the sand, displays no bounds to the finite thought of man. It gives him a sense of uncontrolled freedom, for here he may wander uncontrolled by aught but his desires and the yearnings of his own soul. Shortly after leaving camp we marched through a swarm of locusts, a seething multitude of insects all creeping and hopping over the sand, cling-