Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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BC Archives MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915
Saturday - Oct. 23rd 1915
German Gun Pit - An antillery officer went out in front of our lines on the Vermelles-Hulluch Road + [recognized?] a German gun-pit. The pit is smaller than ours, having an auxiliary ammun pit about 6' long, 2' wide, 2' deep forming a wing on either side. The gun-pit is dug right in + the roof supports rest on ground level. The roof is one layer 6" beams + 2 sheets galvanized iron, 2 more layers of 6" beams + then earth turfed over. A communication trench led to a small dug-out for the gunner + held dugouts for ammunition, there being about 200 shells in them in basket carriers, of which the officer brought in one, together with some maps. An officer serving with the British force near Loos writes that his Division has been very successful in bombing attacks in the recent fighting. We have been very successful as our