Church parade Guincy the micks that turned out was simply scandalous, no room in barracks To tell you fellows about it church was a shack with a crooked stick over it.

Company drill & route march. Turn in the Oliver equipment. 10 mile route march now in orders for each day and the English roads are very hard! Wrote Moncton, McLeeming & Lorne Leach.

Route march to Dover & back nearly 20 miles. Talked with crew of destroyer "C" captured "U8" which had got entangled in a net. "C" was nine days under fire of Belgium, hit in bows by a "Jack Johnston", 23 men wounded & 9 killed out of crew of 65 by this one shell.

"Dresden" announced sunk Mar 14, after 5 minutes fight, surrendered, was on fire and blew up. Crew saved. HMS Glasgow, Auz cruiser "Orama HMS "Kent", near Fernandez Island.

Musketry & bayonet manual & route march. Red Cross train filled with wounded goes through Cheriton. More men of 1st Contingent came in last night.

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