Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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No 4 London General Hospital
To town with Murphy - call on Young - play out badly - Nellie Gauley & friend Milo Edwards call at hospital- take them to Richmond - very foolishly. bad night - no sleep at all.
Sir Roger Casement hanged.
View submarine UC4 on river.
Very bad all morning. Noakes & an Italian friend Secchi call with a motor car and take Murphy and I to Dorking & Kingston - 80 miles altogether - wonderful trip - beautiful country near Dorking Box Hill. Over to No 4 in evening & chat with Maj. Marians.
Afternoon with Murphy & [illegible] Gill to Windsor & go upstream in a skiff - take several amusing photos - tea on bank - Thames 100 foot wide, no current.
Go to Young's - breakdown and am sent home under escort - bad night.
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916.