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

8 Festhubert (Continued from Diary May 20
Day 8h 35m. long] January, 1915. [22nd, Sun rises 7. h. 54m.
Sunday 17 [17 348] 2nd after Epiphany
The Charge of May 2oth (see proper place) May 20
Monday 18 [18 347] Continued From Page 9
(From Page 9) All this time we are being 'sniped' at from orchard & under shrapnel fire, occasionally fr the Brit. guns. Too
Jack Enoch knocked down by concussion .left for dead. (Killed Fall of 1915)
[?] making Trench Burned Blds 5 Germ. machine guns M10 (See Pge 43
13th Batt. Trench dug at dawn Portion of Trench destroyed by shell fire .heaped with dead
[captured ?] [Battle?] Germ. Comm Trench Charge x Milburn Killed
Near Richebourg [l'Avoree ?] & Festhubert
Tuesday 19 [19 346]
x S. M. Flammond
Our machine gun Fort
our advance Trench made 19th May at dawn
Road Ruined Farm Road Bethune TaBassee
Peck's Hdqt. Badly shelled 1000 yds
Brit . Trench Blown to Pieces filled with dead & debris held by Wiltshire's line
Just before dawn Wallis gets us out (We were supposed to be only supports & made the charge instead of the 13th as the latters' guide did not turn up
2d. British many unburned dead [? omma]
of a week ago
3rd line 21st
Wednesday 20 [20 345]