Troop Train across Canada 14th, New Moon 4:31 a.m. FEBRUARY

[Begin attached scrap 1] Monday 15th Feb Near Kamloops at daybreak. Reveille 6 am. Breakfast 6:30. 6:35 at Revelstoke about 2 feet snow. Our platoon taken for a run thru Town. Guards at both ends of every bridge and tunnel throughout BC. At Glacier Station about 5.4 feet of snow. [End attached scrap 1]

[Margin - written sideways ] Note- up to Jne 1st 28 casualties out of 52 men

Sunday 14 Shrove Sunday Call. Navy

Monday 15

Atten J.A

Dowling J. -- already listed Lce-Corp Bde Staff

Sgt. Maj. Hammond - Wnd. My 20- Shot thru thig

Hastings Sig. - Comn - Killed

Moncur P.Sats- Wnd - Died Jan 1921

Tuesday 16 [47-318] Shrove Tuesday

Collison Wnd Both comma

Butler "Buckskin" Capt Heavy artillery

Lee-Cor. Little lost eye

corp- lost, use arm Jne 13/16

77359 Hobbs

77863 Maynard EH in hospital

[Begin attached scrap 2] Tuesday Feb 16th Near medicine hot in the morning - Very little snow on the Prairies. No enthusiasm at the etation - Nothing but sullen foreign faces No guards along the line Juas needs orderly all day, all of us for our car - all food carried from the dinner six cars behind [End attached scrap 2]

Wednesday 17 [48-317] No [text hidden by attached scrap]

[Begin attached scrap 3] Wed Feb. 17th Arrive at Winnipeg in the morning - Winnipeg troops having left the day before - Got the Findlays on the phone + James gets down in time to see me. Stop over an hour, but not allowed out of the station. At dark reach Fort William and are met by a large crowd + band - Taken for a march. Through town. Shake hands with half the girls in town. All Sudbury out to see us. [End attached scrap 3]

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