Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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Shorncliffe Camp
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1st Casualty of Neuve Chapelle today: Killed 573, Died of wounds 70, Wounded 1107, Missing 64, 700 Officers.
Recruiting Poster "Come along, boys! Enlist today"
"Line up, boys! Enlist today"
Hit inspection as usual & general clean up. Walk in afternoon with Campbell & attend Conan Doyle lecture. Heavy built man 55. Fluent speaker, no notes, lecture rather a disappointment, too many details & failure to give a vivid picture of Mons, Ypres, Aisne, Marne as a whole.
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915.