Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
ms0392b01v04e212.jpg
| Revision as of Oct 13, 2015, 12:03:25 PM created by 65.61.234.59 |
Revision as of Feb 22, 2016, 9:05:10 AM protected by Rbcm.admin |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Line 5: | Line 5: | ||
- Trip wire pattern - Run out of stakes & so get in early - 1 am. | - Trip wire pattern - Run out of stakes & so get in early - 1 am. | ||
Tremendous rattle of musketry & Tut-tut of machine guns to the right | Tremendous rattle of musketry & Tut-tut of machine guns to the right | ||
| − | -German flares continuous - but we are hidden in long grass. | + | - German flares continuous - but we are hidden in long grass. |
left for [illegible] | left for [illegible] | ||
See postcard - has the scene down almost exactly. | See postcard - has the scene down almost exactly. | ||
| + | |||
Saturday July 9th/15 | Saturday July 9th/15 | ||
Get fine example of spread of a rumor. | Get fine example of spread of a rumor. | ||
| − | "From 13th Officers, don't shoot or cheer - the | + | "From 13th Officers, don't shoot or cheer - the Dardanelles have been forced - Pass it on." |
| + | |||
| + | BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915. | ||
Revision as of Feb 22, 2016, 9:05:10 AM
Friday July 8th
Third night on working party. - Setting out barbwire entaglements - Trip wire pattern - Run out of stakes & so get in early - 1 am. Tremendous rattle of musketry & Tut-tut of machine guns to the right - German flares continuous - but we are hidden in long grass. left for [illegible] See postcard - has the scene down almost exactly.
Saturday July 9th/15
Get fine example of spread of a rumor. "From 13th Officers, don't shoot or cheer - the Dardanelles have been forced - Pass it on."
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915.
BC Archives, MS-0392 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS
Box 1 / Diary and enclosures, 1915.
Volume 4