TCD MS 10516 folio 32 verso
A very low mound, not more than thirty feet long and twelve feet high, lay in front of us at a distance of about twenty yards. This elevation I call “grassy mound” to prevent its confusion with “thorny mound” which I had left some little time before. A small party of Ghurkas held this mound. About one hundred yards in advance of this hillock I saw a Ghurka struggling along with a wounded man on his shoulder, collapsing at short intervals, either overwhelmed by the weight of his burden or by the demoralising effect of the enemy’s fire which was naturally drawn towards him whenever he exposed himself. I went forward to assist with two orderlies carrying a stretcher. We covered the hundred yards in as nippy a manner as possible; the bullets here were unpleasantly thick. We /