Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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Sunday October 17th 1915 | Sunday October 17th 1915 | ||
| − | n down in a moTor-TransporT To PloegsTeerT Find EllioT pracTising wiTh The bomb Throwers ['enny'] sTill wiTh The 'CE's | + | n down in a moTor-TransporT To PloegsTeerT Find EllioT pracTising wiTh The bomb Throwers ['enny'] sTill wiTh The 'CE's - Uniform badly torn up by wire - NighT before his gang had a bad Time - Germans Turned machine guns on Them in revenge for The nighT before (our paTrol caughT a German working parTy + dispersed Them wiTh [Tavs?] + MG'S + rifle-fire -Sneaked up in The fog and did a loT of execuTion. Long Talk |
| − | [ | + | [with] CapT Vernon. 2d InTelligence officer - Says my papers are being blocked as I am more usefulas a non-com. - Wants me To geT miTchells Colonel To give me a leTTer To a RE. Col., and promises To do whaT he can Too - His descipTion of his own TreaTmenT is a seaThing commenTary on The promotion system. - His applicaTion was aT The war office 5 weeks simply waiTing[?] The signaTure of some official. |
BC Archives, MS-0392, Box 1, Volume 4, FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures,1915. | BC Archives, MS-0392, Box 1, Volume 4, FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures,1915. | ||
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Sunday October 17th 1915 n down in a moTor-TransporT To PloegsTeerT Find EllioT pracTising wiTh The bomb Throwers ['enny'] sTill wiTh The 'CE's - Uniform badly torn up by wire - NighT before his gang had a bad Time - Germans Turned machine guns on Them in revenge for The nighT before (our paTrol caughT a German working parTy + dispersed Them wiTh [Tavs?] + MG'S + rifle-fire -Sneaked up in The fog and did a loT of execuTion. Long Talk [with] CapT Vernon. 2d InTelligence officer - Says my papers are being blocked as I am more usefulas a non-com. - Wants me To geT miTchells Colonel To give me a leTTer To a RE. Col., and promises To do whaT he can Too - His descipTion of his own TreaTmenT is a seaThing commenTary on The promotion system. - His applicaTion was aT The war office 5 weeks simply waiTing[?] The signaTure of some official.
BC Archives, MS-0392, Box 1, Volume 4, FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures,1915.