Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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Billet or Gopher hole all day | Billet or Gopher hole all day | ||
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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, Green-red rockets & machine gun, musketry & artillery fire very violent at midnight - evidently an attack. Hear news of Jack Milligan being killed at Ypres | |
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| + | In the billet all day - Kept standing to from 8 to 11 then marched thru Bethune to the hamlet of Oblinghem 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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| + | Wander down to the coal mine--with Kennie & Findley Nice woman this billet - Husband with French Transport, little boy Gaston & girl MarieLouise | ||
| + | Mme Colle Williart a Oblinghem par Choques Pas-de-Calais | ||
| + | (see letter page 56)-- | ||
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| + | Full kit parade with respirators - then noble feed chez le boulanger - soupe legumes - vin blanc, salade, radis, et paurets (leek), all over the country foraging the latter. Miss muster parade & get orderly room, but make good before the adjutant as never warned | ||
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| + | BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915. | ||
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"Three-Shell Billet" Richebourg to Oblinghem
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, Green-red rockets & machine gun, musketry & artillery fire very violent 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 Oblinghem 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
Wander down to the coal mine--with Kennie & Findley Nice woman this billet - Husband with French Transport, little boy Gaston & girl MarieLouise Mme Colle Williart a Oblinghem par Choques Pas-de-Calais (see letter page 56)--
Full kit parade with respirators - then noble feed chez le boulanger - soupe legumes - vin blanc, salade, radis, et paurets (leek), all over the country foraging the latter. Miss muster parade & get orderly room, but make good before the adjutant as never warned
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915.