Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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but that is better then what is out here, some of the Boys who were bold enough to take a chance were sent back to Boulouge, and to their astonishment found two parsons and seven Y.M.C.A. ladies in the same Hospital.
So Bishop is in the West Lanc's. We had some of them attached to us last fall. They were a fine bunch of fellows and often when we were taken on rations Fruty would point his machine gun at us when the West Lanc's would open up and fire right over our heads and make old Fruty hunt his dugout in a hurry
Wonder how Pat likes married life by this time.
Yes. Clara is married to my Smith. (the young man we
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916.