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Nurses get the doctor in & won't let me up - prescribe some medicine. Canadian padre in to see me. Last night M.G. officer , who is speechless walks in his sleep & falls on his face on the corridor floor - night sister carries him to his bed - the boy can speak next day. Elsie Gill calls in evening, but I am not allowed out.  
 
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United Service museum in morning & House of Parliament afternoon. Evening take a blinded Northcumberland fusilier - Price - out in garden behind - only a mere lad - nurse tracks Murphy & I down with the medicine much to the amusement of the Tommy patients. Pretty well all in Friday
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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