Army Corps HQ. Bailleul (Nord) Sets 4h 37m.] OCTOBER,1915. [Day 9h. 47m. long

THURSDAY 28 [301-64] St. Simon and St. Jude

Reducing To uniform scale cerTain skeTches of forTiFied place place Kemmel [?] Raining nearly all day. - Trenches musT be liquid mud + men chilled to The bone - I am geTTing more and disconTesTed wiTh The sofT living here Paid 50 [?]. receive Provisional Pay Book WenT in orders as SergT 23rd BaxTer Tells me The Boche Aeroplane broughT down on The 26th nearly fell inTo Leckie Ave CT. - bounced Turned over 2 or 3 Times - The Germans fired abouT 30 shrapnel aT iT, hoping To desTroy iT - but only hiT close 2 or 3 Times. The wonder is The German FlighT LieuT. was noT killed in The fall or by his own sides shrapnel.

FRIDAY 29 [302-63]

SATURDAY 30 [303-62] 44th Week

Worked from 9am to 10 pm wiTh half hour inTervals for meals. Reducing + Tracing ForTified posiTions skeTches + making Road map for M[Gay?] HaxTer G.S. GreaT Trouble at The billeTv as SergT Henri Chieux, The fiance of meny LeprevosT is dead of The wounds he received a monTh ago in The Argonne. Poor Meny nearly crying her eyes ouT. OperaTions Cnadian Front - ArTillery acTion on our part has been very effecTive, noT only in silencing enemy's shelling of our trenches , buT by reTaliaTing on his FronT Line + CTs. RegisTering was done on OP.s., suspecTed sTrong pts + working ParTies (?) Observign Sta. aT Messines known as The "Pagoda " 0.32d .6.0. was desTroyed. The enemy Turned a machine gun on The well aT Anton's Fme (Areadia Villa). There capTive balloons up during The day

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BC Archives,MS-0392, Box 1, Volume 4, FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures,1915.