Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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| − | Battalion marches thru Steenwerck, across the frontier into Belgium | + | Battalion marches thru Steenwerck, across the frontier into Belgium. To Plougsteert ("Plug Street") of the Tommies) - Billeted in the "Piggeries" - a model farm - supposed to belong to King Albert - cement floor, pens, & feeding troughs - Four Canadian privates put in the space of one Flemish pig, Got bedded down at midnight, but floor unconscionably hard & of course no blanket. |
| − | Our machine gun officer struck by a stray bullet near Piggeries road, at Estaminet | + | |
| + | Beautiful wooded country around here - cut everywhere by reserve trenches, barricades, and barb wire -The Chateau de la Hutte on the hill back of Hyde Park Cor. - knocked all to pieces | ||
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| + | Our machine gun officer struck by a stray bullet near Piggeries road, at Estaminet - dies at dawn - all in Estaminet put under arrest on account of blaze seen arising from chimney -- Explained later as caused by fat overturned in the stove | ||
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| + | BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures, 1915. | ||
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Tuesday July 5th/15
Battalion marches thru Steenwerck, across the frontier into Belgium. To Plougsteert ("Plug Street") of the Tommies) - Billeted in the "Piggeries" - a model farm - supposed to belong to King Albert - cement floor, pens, & feeding troughs - Four Canadian privates put in the space of one Flemish pig, Got bedded down at midnight, but floor unconscionably hard & of course no blanket.
Beautiful wooded country around here - cut everywhere by reserve trenches, barricades, and barb wire -The Chateau de la Hutte on the hill back of Hyde Park Cor. - knocked all to pieces
Our machine gun officer struck by a stray bullet near Piggeries road, at Estaminet - dies at dawn - all in Estaminet put under arrest on account of blaze seen arising from chimney -- Explained later as caused by fat overturned in the stove
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures, 1915.