Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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Tuesday - September 14th
Germans still shelling Trench 140-142 - one casualty - 5-9 H.E. Our artillery retaliate with shrapnel. German artillery registering - 4 shells near Dereumaux shop at Romarin.
2d Can. Gives now over & Canadian army corps formed - under general Alderson
Baxter gets a haggis, which Flore cooks for him - one taste enough for me - more 1st Canadian Artill. Bde.
At U.3 Earthworks being built - more stakes were added - two large coils thick black wire left on right hand of Messines Road - ½" diam & no barb
Right section - 770 artillery fire & little rifle, machine gun fire.
128-134 - Our snipers accounted for three Germans Today - in Prussian grey service uniform -
the following notice put up by enemy opp 134
"Brest Litowsk the last fortified place in Polawie is fallen. We only lost 3
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 4 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1915.