Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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and children need you. We had letters from a fellow officer of Jack's in the same Regt. but not in the fighting on that fated 15 Sept. This officer is a Nfld boy, a school friend of Jack's. He wrote me that death was instantaneous and that he was buried with the other officers who fell in that engagement it happened in the taking of High Wood, letters from the Chaplain and others said that his grave is marked by a substantial cross, we have also been given the exact location. After the war
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916.