No. 4 London General Hospital

Interviewed Col. Hestor Tirard OC No4 - so to GOC Siege. ADDMS Horses Guards. Weary to death of red tape - lunch with the Trotters - dinner with Hookes & Martin at Italian restaurant Soho - return on top of 12th bus - wonderful searchlight display - some projectors 5 foot diam.

141 officer casualties (63 dead) rank & file 5197. Zepp raid on Bucharest.

133 officer casualties 3134 rank & file.

Boarded by Tirard & Maj Mott - 2 mos - 2 nod. See Maj. Maude for Director of Personal Services. To Hampstead Heath with Elsie Gill - but miserable weather. Witness greatest Zepp raid - shelling & Zepp under searchlights - see Zepp coming down aflame - 2:22 am - cheering in the streets. With Bennett & Burns to Youngs - start to see Zepp wreck at Cuffley - road like Epsom Day - have to turn back.

BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916.