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 oniffy[?]- 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 opens fire 830 pm. on messines. Then Fritz starts, 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 attack[?] near Hooge by liquid fire and reported to have taken front of 400 metres. Go back to Regt report To may: tech- Lechie[?] - sent on to Bde Hgrs. put to work in the generals dining room at Ferme Grand- Westhof- Buy a little hay for 10 sous[?] e sleep in a disused stable. get a cake from Miss[?] 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 des voleurs, des voleurs maid -of-all work Marie very buxom[?]- 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 had demanded to see my pose. He then took my field-book, snorted + threw it in the mud. exclaiming "all wrong, quite wrong Rennie saw this incident + later[?] said he was acofully[?] sorry

Bc Archives, MS-0392, Box1 Volume4, FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures, 1915.