Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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− | 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. | + | 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. |
− | Route march to Dover & back nearly 20 miles. Talked with crew of destroyer " | + | |
+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | "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. | ||
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Musketry & bayonet manual & route march. Red Cross train filled with wounded goes through Cheriton. More men of 1st Contingent came in last night. | Musketry & bayonet manual & route march. Red Cross train filled with wounded goes through Cheriton. More men of 1st Contingent came in last night. | ||
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+ | BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915. |
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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.