Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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Working party 8-2 am night fixing communication trench in front - disagreeable as dig out dead Germans - Only got 3 or 4 shrapnel slung at us - As we are only seven in the section every man is taken - Beautiful moonlight light | Working party 8-2 am night fixing communication trench in front - disagreeable as dig out dead Germans - Only got 3 or 4 shrapnel slung at us - As we are only seven in the section every man is taken - Beautiful moonlight light | ||
Monday 31 [151-214] | Monday 31 [151-214] | ||
| − | -Green-red rockets & machine gun, musketry & artillery fire very violet at midnight - evidently an attack. | + | -Green-red rockets & machine gun, musketry & artillery fire very violet at midnight - evidently an attack. Hear news of Jack Milligan being killed at Ypres |
| + | In the billet all day - Kept standing to from 8 to 11 then marched thru Bethune to the hamlet of Oblingham 4 kilos away - Arrive very tired at 2 am The major & I go prowling at 5 and find a bake shop where we get "cafe sur le plat" - pommes de terres frites - Refugee from near La Bassie - Get our first good wash for a week | ||
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46 "Three-Shell Billet" Richebourg to Oblingham
Day 16 h 20 min. long] May-June 1915. [4th, Sun rises 3h. 48 m. Sunday 30 [150-215] Trinity Sunday
Billet or Gopher hole all day Working party 8-2 am night fixing communication trench in front - disagreeable as dig out dead Germans - Only got 3 or 4 shrapnel slung at us - As we are only seven in the section every man is taken - Beautiful moonlight light
Monday 31 [151-214]
-Green-red rockets & machine gun, musketry & artillery fire very violet at midnight - evidently an attack. Hear news of Jack Milligan being killed at Ypres In the billet all day - Kept standing to from 8 to 11 then marched thru Bethune to the hamlet of Oblingham 4 kilos away - Arrive very tired at 2 am The major & I go prowling at 5 and find a bake shop where we get "cafe sur le plat" - pommes de terres frites - Refugee from near La Bassie - Get our first good wash for a week