Losses of troops through heatstroke on train. Receives orders to leave for Mesopotamia to command newly formed 2nd Btn./103rd L.I. Sails from Karachi on 'Elephanta', 12 Jul, as O.C. troops on transport ship. Arr. Basra, on the Shatt-el-Arab, 16 Jul. Disembarks troops and sets of to join regime...
Presides at Military Court to try seven German internees at Ahmednaggar, 28 Aug accused of attempting to smuggle secret messages out of prison in letters home. 6 month sentences. Member of an A.H.Q. Committee for the issue of free rations to the Indian Army for the New Year, at Delhi, Dec.