Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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granary windows -- 75 m.m. guns threw 40 shells into the farm -- round holes -- through door. -- one shell exploded in kitchen midden & another in chimney. Told that 600 Germans buried near burnt farm close by. Move out 8 pm & march to old billeting area. -- Sleep with Dan McGregor in waggon box -- very cold & stiff | granary windows -- 75 m.m. guns threw 40 shells into the farm -- round holes -- through door. -- one shell exploded in kitchen midden & another in chimney. Told that 600 Germans buried near burnt farm close by. Move out 8 pm & march to old billeting area. -- Sleep with Dan McGregor in waggon box -- very cold & stiff | ||
| − | + | Visiting old friends all day -- made very welcome everywhere | |
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| + | Wrote Noakes enclosing duplicate copy of will | ||
| + | TUESDAY 29 [180-185] | ||
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55 Neuf-Berquin to Billets La Maison Blanc
27th, Full Moon 4.27 a.m.] JUNE, 1915. [2nd, Sun rises eh. 50m. SUNDAY 27 [178-187] 4th after Trinity
at Neuf Berquin -- church, old mill shelled by English 7 German officers at our billet 10-14 October -- French at Merville, English at Hazebrouch -- 32000 Germans German machine guns in
MONDAY 28 [179-186]
granary windows -- 75 m.m. guns threw 40 shells into the farm -- round holes -- through door. -- one shell exploded in kitchen midden & another in chimney. Told that 600 Germans buried near burnt farm close by. Move out 8 pm & march to old billeting area. -- Sleep with Dan McGregor in waggon box -- very cold & stiff Visiting old friends all day -- made very welcome everywhere
Wrote Noakes enclosing duplicate copy of will
TUESDAY 29 [180-185]