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Sergt. Vernon D. Stevens 16th Battalion, killed in action

p. 45 Old German Trench Parapet Turned

26-28 May 1915

shell blows out this quarter while I am sentry at "A"

No earth slope in front

sandbags

Firing Platform no parados

dugout Gibson, Flewin & Goodrich Robinson

Dead Germans buried 1914 - partially exposed by shell fire

Hole scooped out, occupied by me at first

Water filled shell crater with bodies floating in green scum

BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915.