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

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" 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 - walls pitted with rifle + shrapnel fire - window [?] broken notice panelling 2[?] pictures ruined. Scour the Town for a balb finally a estaminet[?] waitress rustles up a concierge who gives 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 + cating[?] 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 our[?] front - Finish[?] 1/5000 tracs[?] after much trouble with smudgy graph ink P7, 7A, 23--B5 67 F2 BC Archives, MS-0392, Box 1Volume 4, FRANK SWANNEL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures, 1915.