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Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I

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3rd Bde HQ        Ferme Lori Dan-ploegsteert 64.
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3rd Bde HQ        Ferme Loridan-Ploegsteert 64.
 
Sets 7h. 50m.]                    JULY, 1915.                                        [Day 15h. 28m. long]
 
Sets 7h. 50m.]                    JULY, 1915.                                        [Day 15h. 28m. long]
  
 
THURSDAY 29 [210-155]
 
THURSDAY 29 [210-155]
acciden at Boulleul- Bomb drops from areoplane +injures 7 people.
 
aeroplane combat Tonight-
 
In Trenches again Today
 
  
FRIDAY 30 [211-154]                                       or "Loridan"
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Accident at Bailleul- Bomb drops from aeroplane  & injures 7 people.
Headquarters moved down To large farm  "L'Auridon" on Ploegsteert Road. about 1/2 mile from Town  get leave + visit armentieres- a manufacturing Town - mostly cloth. - Has suffered much from shell fire  Old Town house of Count  of Hainaull - notice panelling 2 pictures ruined.                 Scour the Town for a balb
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finally a estaminet[?] waitress rustled up a concierge who gives us a bath in a deserted hotel - The scoundrel chargesus 2 fr. a head - probably commission for mamzelle.[?]
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Aeroplane combat Tonight -- In Trenches again today
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FRIDAY 30 [211-154]  
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                                    or "Loridan"
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Headquarters moved down To large farm  "L'Auridon" on Ploegsteert Road. about 1/2 mile from Town  Get leave + visit armentieres -- a manufacturing Town - mostly cloth. - Has suffered much from shell fire  Old Town house of Count  of Hainault -- walls pitted with rifle & shrapnel fire -- windows broken & notice panelling 2 pictures ruined. Scour the Town for a bath & finally a Estaminet waitress rustles up a concierge who fixes us a bath in a deserted hotel -- The scoundrel charges us 2 fr. a head -- probably commission for mamzelle.
  
 
SATURDAY 31 [212-153] 31st Week
 
SATURDAY 31 [212-153] 31st Week
Trinity Law Sittings end Game Certificates expire
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Trinity Law Sittings end  
very cramped work room - 2 orderly room sergeants + us in one corner of kitchen - Flies bad + equalling young un[?]
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Game Certificates expire
- Sugar lump bait for flies after 3 days service given kids to eat
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very cramped work room -- 2 orderly room sergeants & us in one corner of kitchen -- cooking + eating going on in another corner -- Flies bad & a squalling young'un -- Sugar lump bait for flies after 3 days service given kid to eat
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Sergt Bernard - staff sergt here.
 
Sergt Bernard - staff sergt here.
                            - Reverts To  Bn. killed summer of 1916
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-- Reverts To  Bn. & killed summer of 1916
making small sketch maps of trenches and front - Fourth 1/5000 traces after much trouble with smudgy graph ink
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making small sketch maps of trenches out front -- Finish[?] 1/5,000 traces after much trouble with smudgy graph ink
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P7, 7A, 23--B5                                                      67                                        F2
 
P7, 7A, 23--B5                                                      67                                        F2
BC Archives, MS-0392, Box 1Volume 4, FRANK SWANNEL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures, 1915.
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BC Archives, MS-0392                             FRANK SWANNEL PAPERS
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Box 1                                                            Diary and enclosures, 1915.
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Volume 4

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3rd Bde HQ Ferme Loridan-Ploegsteert 64. Sets 7h. 50m.] JULY, 1915. [Day 15h. 28m. long]

THURSDAY 29 [210-155]

Accident at Bailleul- Bomb drops from aeroplane & injures 7 people.

Aeroplane combat Tonight -- In Trenches again today

FRIDAY 30 [211-154]

                                    or "Loridan"

Headquarters moved down To large farm "L'Auridon" on Ploegsteert Road. about 1/2 mile from Town Get leave + visit armentieres -- a manufacturing Town - mostly cloth. - Has suffered much from shell fire Old Town house of Count of Hainault -- walls pitted with rifle & shrapnel fire -- windows broken & notice panelling 2 pictures ruined. Scour the Town for a bath & finally a Estaminet waitress rustles up a concierge who fixes us a bath in a deserted hotel -- The scoundrel charges us 2 fr. a head -- probably commission for mamzelle.

SATURDAY 31 [212-153] 31st Week Trinity Law Sittings end Game Certificates expire

very cramped work room -- 2 orderly room sergeants & us in one corner of kitchen -- cooking + eating going on in another corner -- Flies bad & a squalling young'un -- Sugar lump bait for flies after 3 days service given kid to eat

Sergt Bernard - staff sergt here.

-- Reverts To  Bn. & killed summer of 1916

making small sketch maps of trenches out front -- Finish[?] 1/5,000 traces after much trouble with smudgy graph ink

P7, 7A, 23--B5 67 F2

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