Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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| − | Torpedo boats in the basin Riga. all other news about that not are true A party of 12 men dispersed by CFA. -- all either killed or wounded. Excavating at La Petite Douve. yet another machine-gun emplacement in parapet at Petite Douve. French mortar bomb found, markings on fuze | + | Torpedo boats in the basin Riga. all other news about that not are true |
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| + | Excavating at La Petite Douve. yet another machine-gun emplacement in parapet at Petite Douve. | ||
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| + | French mortar bomb found, markings on fuze "Zunder Mittlerer Werf-Mine" _ Zm. Wm 1914 (1914 Pattern). Burst of shell feeble, heard merely being blown sideways & contents burning. After 12 hrs. in the ground shell still hot & ground around fused Base of shell has copper driving band with six grooves Filling seems a mixture of Phos. & Calcium Carbide | ||
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915. | BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915. | ||
Revision as of Feb 18, 2016, 3:35:16 PM
Torpedo boats in the basin Riga. all other news about that not are true
A party of 12 men dispersed by CFA. -- all either killed or wounded.
Excavating at La Petite Douve. yet another machine-gun emplacement in parapet at Petite Douve.
French mortar bomb found, markings on fuze "Zunder Mittlerer Werf-Mine" _ Zm. Wm 1914 (1914 Pattern). Burst of shell feeble, heard merely being blown sideways & contents burning. After 12 hrs. in the ground shell still hot & ground around fused Base of shell has copper driving band with six grooves Filling seems a mixture of Phos. & Calcium Carbide
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915.