Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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Siege School - Cooden Camp May [1 to 3] / 1 Monday [122-244] / 5th Month 1916
SS. Philip and James. Bank Holiday Scotland. Holiday, Stock Exchange. Royal Academy opens
Lectures on Communication Duties of BC - New major [Turns ?] up on the course. About 45 offers in Mess now. Casually lists from Dublin published Heavy rain Tonight
2 TUESDAY [123-243] Easter Law Settings begin. 5th 29m A.M. (Greenwich) Observation of Tuffs with graticuled glasses - New. IG holds forth in a stilled pedantic way. To Beyhill with Jenkinson Heavy rains
3 WEDNESDAY [124-242] Observation of flash of hostile gun & instrumental observation of puff - New maj. sends us to sleep - Webster down from T.D with a draft. Alarm at [illegible] & sentry shot dead by his own squad. Walk to Beyhill with Wilkins & Jenkinson
BC Archives, MS-0392 / FRANK SWANNEL PAPERS Box 1 / Diarry and enclosures, 1916. Volume 5