Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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Friday July 8th
Third night on working party. - Setting out barbwire entaglements - Trip wire pattern - Run out of stakes & so get in early - 1 am. Tremendous rattle of musketry & Tut-tut of machine guns to the right - German flares continuous - but we are hidden in long grass. left for [illegible] See postcard - has the scene down almost exactly.
Saturday July 9th/15
Get fine example of spread of a rumor. "From 13th Officers, don't shoot or cheer - the Dardanelles have been forced - Pass it on."
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915.
BC Archives, MS-0392 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS
Box 1 / Diary and enclosures, 1915.
Volume 4