Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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dugout at Prouse Cor, drawing rations from | dugout at Prouse Cor, drawing rations from | ||
Red Cross 3rd Batt.-Get a bullet thru hair | Red Cross 3rd Batt.-Get a bullet thru hair | ||
| − | while standing on Messines Road& arrested | + | while standing on Messines Road & arrested |
as Germ. Spies& haled before officers of 8th | as Germ. Spies& haled before officers of 8th | ||
Battalion-Insult to injury. | Battalion-Insult to injury. | ||
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Wednesday July 20th-16th Batt. moved back to Neuve Eglise-Called before Maj. Peck & Capt Morison Instructed to survey trenches- Chose Baxter as assistant-Moved down to dugout at Prouse Cor, drawing rations from Red Cross 3rd Batt.-Get a bullet thru hair while standing on Messines Road & arrested as Germ. Spies& haled before officers of 8th Battalion-Insult to injury. 6 Tins "Maconchie" Thursday July 21st Start survey with Prismatic Compass. -Much suspicion & Trouble with sentries Tonight the Germans shell one of our aeroplanes-The whole of a shrapnel casing landing 100' from our dugout, burying in 18"- Some of new draft in the 3rd ultra cautious- periscopes through loophole plates-Col. Rennie of the 3rd phones Bde HQrs about us- Get trenches 125-127 done