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Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I

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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5

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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

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