Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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was also shelled by us & good deal of damage done to their wire.
A party of engineers preceded by a covering party of 2 officers & 15 men successfully blew up a house between the lines near the Wulverghem Messines Road. This house had been previously recommitted & found to be wired and fortified. It was completely demolished & only a portion of the chimney left standing.
Extract from German soldiers diary.
"Liet. Reincher is drunk ----- " " is again drunk -- "This evening our Lieut. Reincher went sick "Today we made an attack---Lieut. Reincher could be heard ceaselessly shouting 'Vorwarts! from the 2d Line dugouts
A final entry mentions, "Our Lieut. Reincher has been awarded Iron Cross
BC Archives, MS-0392
Box 1 Volume 4
Frank Swannell Papers
Diary and enclosures, 1915.