Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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Wednesday July 6th/15
Left in peace all day -- 8 pm. sent on working party digging & sandbagging communication trench - Cold windy night & pitch dark except for German flares - Stray bullets whining past but nobody hit
Sick all day & dead tired at night - hardly know what I am doing - Too dark to see one's shovel - Get home to the cement pigpen at 3 am. Jack Enoch & I dig one traverse but Jack insists on doing most of the work.
Wednesday July 7th/15
Sent to Bde HQr's with fatigue party for 10 shovels each - meet common sense in the person of Brigadier General Turner who suggests that one limber would have saved us a heavy pack - Working party all night, this time putting ditch behind front line & banking dugout roofs' - Considerable sniping and one call for stretcher bearers.
Sgt. Maj wounded by shrapnel near Hyde Park Corner
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915.