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Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I

Diaries of Frank Cyril Swannell Learn more.

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

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38 Siege School- Cooden Camp May [8 to 10] 8 MONDAY [129-237] 5th Month 1916

All day indoors as weather execrable - Acting in Turn as BC giving orders as reports come in from OF.'s

9 TUESDAY [130-236] Proclamation, King George V. Half Quarter Day

Still Very disagreeable weather -Ranging on line of observation Canadian Casualty List w/51 names

10 WEDNESDAY [131-235] 8h 47m A.M. (Greenwich)

Ranging on line of observation on big black board divided into no'sq of elev., deflect. - Most of us make a pretty poor fist of BC. - "Scenery" of Toy houses walls and Trees provided

Posted Temporalily To 119 Siege Blg. Take long walk along Tevenses Marsh To near Hormanhurd - returning inland.

BC Archives, MS-0392 FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS

Box 1 Diary and enclosures, 1916.

Volume 5

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