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| − | August [7 to 9] 7 MONDAY [220-146] 8th Month 1916
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| − | Bank Holiday. Royal Academy closes
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| − | Nurses get the Doctors in & won't
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| − | let me up-Prescribe some medicine.
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| − | Canadian Padre in to see me.
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| − | Last night MG. officer, who is speechless
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| − | walks in his sleep & falls on his face
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| − | on the corridor floor-Night sister & I
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| − | carry him to his bed. The boy
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| − | can speak next day.
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| − | Elsie Gill calls in evening, but I am
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| − | not allowed out.
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| − | 8 TUESDAY [221-145]
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| − | United Service Museum in morning
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| − | & House of Parliament afternoon. Evening
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| − | Take a blinded Northumberland Fusilier
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| − | -Price- out in garden behind - only a
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| − | mere lad- Nurse tracks Murphy & I
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| − | down with the medicine much to the
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| − | amusement of the Tommy Patients
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| − | Pretty well all in today -
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| − | 12 miles from Stanislau; 2,000 prisoners. British
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| − | attack on outskirts of Guillemont; French advance
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| − | east of Hill 139, north of Hardecourt. French
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| − | carry a line of German trenches between Hem
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| − | Wood and the Somme to the east of Monacu
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| − | Farm. More French progress south of the Thiaumont
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| − | Work and in Fleury.
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| − | August 8.----General Lechitsky carries Tysmienica,
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| − | six miles from Stanislau; 7,400 prisoners. British
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| − | move against Guillemont continues; south-west
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| − | of village line advance 400 yards. French
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| − | capture line of German trenches on front of 3 3/4
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| − | miles north of the Somme. Fierce fighting at
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| − | Verdun; Germans gain and lose Thiaumont Work.
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| − | Portugal's resolve to extend her military cooperation
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| − | to Europe announced.
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| − | August 9.----Fall of Gorizia to the Italians; the
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| − | Isonzo crossed and the Austrians pursued; Italians
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| − | occupy the hills of the Rosenthal and the Vertoibica
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| − | line; total prisoners to date 12,000. Russians gain
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| − | the junction of Chryplin, two miles from Stanislau.
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| − | British gain 200 yards on a frontage of 600 yards,
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| − | north-west of Pozieres. French advance north of
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| − | Hem Wood. French guns bombard Doiran on Serbo-Greek
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| − | frontier. Turkish counter-attack, Sinai
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| − | Peninsula, repulsed. Zeppelin raid on East Coast;
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| − | 22 casualties.
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| − | BC Archives, MS-0392 FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS
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| − | Box 1 Diary and enclosures, 1916.
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| − | Volume 5
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