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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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133rd Siege Battery R.G.A.

Another strenuous day - one section after another on 2 6" Howitzers lecture to all ranks by a doctor on the usual army sickness - whole army corps out of commission there from. Weather still execrable - storm after storm.

Out with observers - resecting on map & triangulating. Paid the Bty. off. Lecturing on initial elevation & ranging. Weather bad as ever. Sergeant-Major ill - Sgt. Franelle acting S.M.

All day with specialists laying out lines of fire with Quinton's signallers giving telephone communication lecture on probability factors. Maj. takes officers 6 - 7:30 reading puffs and ranging on line of observation. Long walk with Quinton - weather cold and cloudy.

BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916.

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