13th September 1914  (Sunday)

SERCHES.  Artillery duels increasingly heavy, shells constantly passing overhead.  13th Infantry (?) transport cut up.  Heavy casualties including Capt. Murray,  to whom I gave the last drink he had,  and Sgt Major McWhinnie K.O.B.S. (nb. Miss Murray, daughter of Capt Murray, had our boys in her class in Sunday School in Dublin).  We used a house as a dressing station and after redressing wounded had to move suddenly on account of danger from shell fire. Retreat to a farm but soon afterwards return to the village to receive wounded brought in by our bearers at 9pm. Receive 18 wounded at 1.30pm and redress them. Slept a few hours on straw in shed.  The rooms and garden were very fine in this house.