TCD MS 10516 folio 31 recto
[14th September 1916] found dozens of empty cartridge cases, all marked with the crescent, displaying their Turkish origin. One pool of blood with a trail of splashes leading down the trench showed where an Arab had been wounded, and the presence in the nullah of our own shrapnel indicated the accuracy of our gun-fire. From the mound I could see the enemy who had retired to a nullah at the margin of some fields of Indian corn, their heads just appearing at wide intervals as the more daring of them peeped out of their hiding-place. We kept up a heavy sniping at every head that appeared; they returned to us the same kindly compliment. The bullets whistled overhead, causing, then, more amusement than alarm. We were fairly snug in the nullahs, from which we had driven the Arabs, and as they