Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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MONDY 26 [207-158] | MONDY 26 [207-158] | ||
Hill while pacing fish Ho Road- bullets fly a little high. Supercilious staff-mai. 1st Bde very oniffey[?]- privates should not be given a job they are incapable of doing eTe. Have To Take it all, bat sea a bet red. | Hill while pacing fish Ho Road- bullets fly a little high. Supercilious staff-mai. 1st Bde very oniffey[?]- privates should not be given a job they are incapable of doing eTe. Have To Take it all, bat sea a bet red. | ||
| − | *- Col. Rennie on the contrary greatly interested in the notes Combat of aeroplanes sunday night | + | *- Col. Rennie on the contrary greatly interested in the notes Combat of aeroplanes sunday night our artillery open fire 830 pm. on messines. Them Fritz starls, mostly on chateau, but half a doz shells land near us. Complete survey today. |
TUESDAY 27 [208-157] | TUESDAY 27 [208-157] | ||
germans shell ridge 1/2 mile from Headquaters and drop 32 shells into Niappa. made attach near Hooge by liquid fire and reported to have taken front of 400 meters. | germans shell ridge 1/2 mile from Headquaters and drop 32 shells into Niappa. made attach near Hooge by liquid fire and reported to have taken front of 400 meters. | ||
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63 surveys Ploegsteert Fme Grand Westhof 26th, full moon 0 11 p.m.] JULY 1915. [30th, Sun rises 4h. 22m.]
Sunday 25 [206-159] 8th after trinity
St. James. Last Day Lodger old Claims
Still on survey- get sniped at from messines
MONDY 26 [207-158]
Hill while pacing fish Ho Road- bullets fly a little high. Supercilious staff-mai. 1st Bde very oniffey[?]- privates should not be given a job they are incapable of doing eTe. Have To Take it all, bat sea a bet red.
- - Col. Rennie on the contrary greatly interested in the notes Combat of aeroplanes sunday night our artillery open fire 830 pm. on messines. Them Fritz starls, mostly on chateau, but half a doz shells land near us. Complete survey today.
TUESDAY 27 [208-157]
germans shell ridge 1/2 mile from Headquaters and drop 32 shells into Niappa. made attach near Hooge by liquid fire and reported to have taken front of 400 meters. Go back to Regt report To may: tech- Lechie - sent on to Bde Hgrs. put to work in the generals dinning room at Ferme Grand- Westhof- Buy a little hay for 10 ocres[?] e sleep in a disused stable. get a cake from llifs Eihel Elliot- divide up with the section
WEDNESDAY 28 [209-156]
very quiet day. - Working at Headquaters' Ferme Gand Westhof. some of the batmen steal a little hay + mme appeals To me lls sont bes voleurs, bos voleurs maid -of-all work Marie very buyom[?]- paddles around with bare feet stuck into huge sabots.
- Rennie was Col. of the Bn who took over from the 16th He has Told this staff-mai about us. The latter has demanded to see pose. He then took my field-book, snorted + threw it in the mud. exclaiming "all wrong, quite wrong Rennie saw this incident + easer[?] said he was acofully[?] sorry
Bc Archives, MS-0392, Box1 Volume4, FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures, 1915.