Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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Friday Sept 17th- 1915- Wire from Div. HQ for me[?] To report with Kit- Leekie wont release me but finally I get off on promising To finish The map aT Div. -Pack my sTuff over To Nieppe and geT inTwo hours work on Trench maps - supper aT SergeanTs mess - an amazing imporvement on our fare as privaTes - Working ParTy Progress Report Tr. 135-6 13th. Bn. Working on DiTch, Bldg ParapeT + Fire STeps 136- " " Rebuilding ParapeT Ft STewart " " MG. Empl., making shell Trench Plus Dowe Fme Building DugouTs for coy HQ 138-9 16th EyeauaT. of Coy. HQ. completed 140-142 " Widening Trenches, deepinining FaThers Wlk raised side by sand bagging Dug shell Trench. made small beginning on proposed line Trench fronT of 141-2 Leekie Ave " Deepened + drained Craddoch WH DugouTs completed Tr. 141-2 16th Continued wiring Subsidiary Line 168 men. [EqueauaTing + reveTTing ?] exTenion of SerpenTine near WhiTe GaTes 125' floored wiTh concreTe. Work continued on MG. emplacemenT. norTh of Ration Fm 135' fire sTep puT in near 5t QuenTins Brigade HQ 40 MEN cONStrucTing advanced dugouTs
BC Archives, MS-0392, Box 1, Volume 4, FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures,1915.