Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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| − | Walk with Campbell to Lympne, & Green 12 miles. Backwoods men sent to cut poles for bayonet fighting. Have to pack them | + | Napier Barrack, Shornecliffe Camp Kent |
| − | Bayonet sharpened today, digging trenches service conditions ie 4 of us working at | + | |
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| + | April, 1915 | ||
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| + | Walk with Campbell to Lympne, & Newin Green 12 miles. | ||
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| + | Backwoods men sent to cut poles for bayonet fighting. Have to pack them ½ mile. Amused at "beavering" of a territorial fatigue. Start trench on parade ground for dummies for bayonet practice. | ||
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| + | This morning practice clip loading & semaphore. Route march through Folkestone. | ||
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| + | Bayonet sharpened today, digging trenches service conditions ie 4 of us working at sap-head 5 min. on 15 off. Lecture by Adjutant on trench work. At Neuve Chapelle orders disobeyed & 2nd time of German trenches rushed & occupied & then shelled by British Artillery, causing most casualties on our side. | ||
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| + | BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915. | ||
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Napier Barrack, Shornecliffe Camp Kent
31/
April, 1915
Walk with Campbell to Lympne, & Newin Green 12 miles.
Backwoods men sent to cut poles for bayonet fighting. Have to pack them ½ mile. Amused at "beavering" of a territorial fatigue. Start trench on parade ground for dummies for bayonet practice.
This morning practice clip loading & semaphore. Route march through Folkestone.
Bayonet sharpened today, digging trenches service conditions ie 4 of us working at sap-head 5 min. on 15 off. Lecture by Adjutant on trench work. At Neuve Chapelle orders disobeyed & 2nd time of German trenches rushed & occupied & then shelled by British Artillery, causing most casualties on our side.
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915.