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Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I

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Tuesday October 12th 1915
 
Tuesday October 12th 1915
Zeppelin scare tonight- Bells rung at 740, all lights extinguished - townsfolk much excited - Zeppelins pass near Lillebecke-give us the go by after all. Busy all day putting 2nd & 3rd GHQ lines on 1/20,000 sheets. Reported that Belgrade has fallen - Distant cannonading-gunflashes illuminate the sky like heat lightning. See an aeroplane being treated to German shrapnel-it gets clear-Hear the motor transport service cost 1/2 million dollars a day- Buy a souvenir Ypres badge for Ada, which I hope she will wear. Operations- at midnight a party of three officers & one NCO went out to the enemy's wire opposite Trench 139-succeeded in removing 3 sets of double angle irons each supporting
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Zeppelin scare tonight -- Bells rung at 740, all lights extinguished - townsfolk much excited -- Zeppelins pass near Lillebecke & give us the go by after all.
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Busy all day putting 2nd & 3rd G.H.Q lines on 1/20,000 sheets.  
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Reported that Belgrade has fallen - Distant cannonading--gunflashes illuminate the sky like heat lightning.  
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See an aeroplane being treated to German shrapnel - -it gets clear -- Hear the motor transport service cost 1/4 million dollars a day -- Buy a souvenir Ypres badge for Ada, which I hope she will wear.  
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Operations -- at midnight a party of three officers & one NCO went out to the enemy's wire opposite Trench 139 -- succeeded in removing 3 sets of double angle irons each supporting

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Tuesday October 12th 1915

Zeppelin scare tonight -- Bells rung at 740, all lights extinguished - townsfolk much excited -- Zeppelins pass near Lillebecke & give us the go by after all.

Busy all day putting 2nd & 3rd G.H.Q lines on 1/20,000 sheets.

Reported that Belgrade has fallen - Distant cannonading--gunflashes illuminate the sky like heat lightning.

See an aeroplane being treated to German shrapnel - -it gets clear -- Hear the motor transport service cost 1/4 million dollars a day -- Buy a souvenir Ypres badge for Ada, which I hope she will wear.

Operations -- at midnight a party of three officers & one NCO went out to the enemy's wire opposite Trench 139 -- succeeded in removing 3 sets of double angle irons each supporting