Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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− | Laying out line of fire - very good success. Puff series with the major - get badly balled up, being my first try at this game. Canadian casualty lists still | + | Lydd Camp - Kent |
− | Thoroughly discouraging day - obtaining lines of fire . LO | + | |
− | Short | + | Laying out line of fire - very good success. Puff series with the major - get badly balled up, being my first try at this game. Canadian casualty lists still appalling heavy - Ypres salient! |
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+ | Thoroughly discouraging day - obtaining lines of fire . LO & RO not intervisible - very poor work - in PM complete mess made of matters - puff series 6-7:30 - make a poor fist of it - resolve to get my corporal to give lots more practise. Jack Mitchell writes he is getting Military Cross & Captaincy. | ||
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+ | Short specialist parade - inoculation - afternoon ranging on puff board with Major Eady & Jenkinson. Sit up late letter writing. Maj. Gibson & Forbes (old cog S.M.) in wounded list. | ||
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+ | Writing letters hard. With Jenkinson call on Major's wife - most garrulous - prolonged call. Letter writing until midnight. | ||
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+ | C.E. Swannell wounded. | ||
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+ | B.O.S. London comes in with telegram for Corp. Sharples "Meet me tomorrow if possible. Kathleen". As Sharples is meeting a girl we take no action. | ||
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+ | BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916. |
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Lydd Camp - Kent
Laying out line of fire - very good success. Puff series with the major - get badly balled up, being my first try at this game. Canadian casualty lists still appalling heavy - Ypres salient!
Thoroughly discouraging day - obtaining lines of fire . LO & RO not intervisible - very poor work - in PM complete mess made of matters - puff series 6-7:30 - make a poor fist of it - resolve to get my corporal to give lots more practise. Jack Mitchell writes he is getting Military Cross & Captaincy.
Short specialist parade - inoculation - afternoon ranging on puff board with Major Eady & Jenkinson. Sit up late letter writing. Maj. Gibson & Forbes (old cog S.M.) in wounded list.
Writing letters hard. With Jenkinson call on Major's wife - most garrulous - prolonged call. Letter writing until midnight.
C.E. Swannell wounded.
B.O.S. London comes in with telegram for Corp. Sharples "Meet me tomorrow if possible. Kathleen". As Sharples is meeting a girl we take no action.
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916.