Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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Army Corps HQ. Bailleul Day 10h. 40m. long] October, 1915 [15th, Sun rises 6h.[2?] Sunday 10 [283-82] 19th after Trinity Rec'd 50 francs from Corps Paymaster Col. Mitchell tells me hasTsent in application for staff pay ([currency sign] 2 00[underscored] per day) for me No chance for me with the Canadians except with an infantry commission Monday 11 [284-81] -Am to be Transferred to the Imperials Get some war post cards at a little Estaminet, Rue[?] de l'Occident - Givencky[?] + messines - these views shake me all to pieces - am nearly chucking up my job + asking the Colonel to send me back to the Trenches. Cant stand this drafting much longer. Yesterday got a run down to Bn Transport - Find my stripes get for me far different Treatment from the Coy[?] QM - He is almost obsequious [?] - queer place this army with all iTs cringing and fawning[?] before superiors. Was talking with McDonald of the time he+ I[?] were sent to dig a CT. to the captured Boche[?] trench at Richebourg L'avoue[?] - How we waded in mud knee-deep + had to lie in the long grass, two hours, because the Germans were 'wise' to us, + were continually sending up flares + rapid-fire I was chilled to the bone as I had no greatcoat. That was the night we couldn't get the Trench down[?] on account of water + the buried Boche dead of Autumn 1914 - Ugh!! Tuesday 12 [285-80] Michaelmas Law Sittings begin In den Kampfen[?] in Feindesland starb in truester Pflichterfullung[?] am 30. September duich einen Kopf schuB unser liever Sohn, Bruder, Schwager, Enkel und Neffe, der Kriegsfreiwillige Franze Muller Vizefeldwebel im 28 Res-inf.-Regiment Inhaver des Eisernen Kreuzes im Alter von Jahren den Heldentod furs[?] Vaterland. Koln, Humboldtstr 7 Schleiden im Felde Often-bach a.M., Frankfurt a.M., 11. Oktober 1915. In tiefer Trauer: Prof. Dr. Konrad Muller und Familie, Das Traueramt tindet am Donnerstag den 14. Okt., morgens 9 Uhr, in der Mauritiusptarrkirche statt[?] (1k
BC Archives,MS-0392, Box 1 Volume 4, FRANK SWANNEL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures, 1915.