Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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+ | August [7 to 9] 7 MONDAY [220-146] 8th Month 1916 | ||
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+ | Bank Holiday. Royal Academy closes | ||
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+ | Nurses get the Doctors in & won't | ||
+ | let me up-Prescribe some medicine. | ||
+ | Canadian Padre in to see me. | ||
+ | Last night MG. officer, who is speechless | ||
+ | walks in his sleep & falls on his face | ||
+ | on the corridor floor-Night sister & I | ||
+ | carry him to his bed. The boy | ||
+ | can speak next day. | ||
+ | Elsie Gill calls in evening, but I am | ||
+ | not allowed out. | ||
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+ | 8 TUESDAY [221-145] | ||
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+ | United Service Museum in morning | ||
+ | & House of Parliament afternoon. Evening | ||
+ | Take a blinded Northumberland Fusilier | ||
+ | -Price- out in garden behind - only a | ||
+ | mere lad- Nurse tracks Murphy & I | ||
+ | down with the medicine much to the | ||
+ | amusement of the Tommy Patients | ||
+ | Pretty well all in today - | ||
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+ | 12 miles from Stanislau; 2,000 prisoners. British | ||
+ | attack on outskirts of Guillemont; French advance | ||
+ | east of Hill 139, north of Hardecourt. French | ||
+ | carry a line of German trenches between Hem | ||
+ | Wood and the Somme to the east of Monacu | ||
+ | Farm. More French progress south of the Thiaumont | ||
+ | Work and in Fleury. | ||
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+ | August 8.----General Lechitsky carries Tysmienica, | ||
+ | six miles from Stanislau; 7,400 prisoners. British | ||
+ | move against Guillemont continues; south-west | ||
+ | of village line advance 400 yards. French | ||
+ | capture line of German trenches on front of 3 3/4 | ||
+ | miles north of the Somme. Fierce fighting at | ||
+ | Verdun; Germans gain and lose Thiaumont Work. | ||
+ | Portugal's resolve to extend her military cooperation | ||
+ | to Europe announced. | ||
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+ | August 9.----Fall of Gorizia to the Italians; the | ||
+ | Isonzo crossed and the Austrians pursued; Italians | ||
+ | occupy the hills of the Rosenthal and the Vertoibica | ||
+ | line; total prisoners to date 12,000. Russians gain | ||
+ | the junction of Chryplin, two miles from Stanislau. | ||
+ | British gain 200 yards on a frontage of 600 yards, | ||
+ | north-west of Pozieres. French advance north of | ||
+ | Hem Wood. French guns bombard Doiran on Serbo-Greek | ||
+ | frontier. Turkish counter-attack, Sinai | ||
+ | Peninsula, repulsed. Zeppelin raid on East Coast; | ||
+ | 22 casualties. | ||
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+ | BC Archives, MS-0392 FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS | ||
+ | Box 1 Diary and enclosures, 1916. | ||
+ | Volume 5 |
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August [7 to 9] 7 MONDAY [220-146] 8th Month 1916
Bank Holiday. Royal Academy closes
Nurses get the Doctors in & won't let me up-Prescribe some medicine. Canadian Padre in to see me. Last night MG. officer, who is speechless walks in his sleep & falls on his face on the corridor floor-Night sister & I carry him to his bed. The boy can speak next day. Elsie Gill calls in evening, but I am not allowed out.
8 TUESDAY [221-145]
United Service Museum in morning & House of Parliament afternoon. Evening Take a blinded Northumberland Fusilier -Price- out in garden behind - only a mere lad- Nurse tracks Murphy & I down with the medicine much to the amusement of the Tommy Patients Pretty well all in today -
12 miles from Stanislau; 2,000 prisoners. British attack on outskirts of Guillemont; French advance east of Hill 139, north of Hardecourt. French carry a line of German trenches between Hem Wood and the Somme to the east of Monacu Farm. More French progress south of the Thiaumont Work and in Fleury.
August 8.----General Lechitsky carries Tysmienica, six miles from Stanislau; 7,400 prisoners. British move against Guillemont continues; south-west of village line advance 400 yards. French capture line of German trenches on front of 3 3/4 miles north of the Somme. Fierce fighting at Verdun; Germans gain and lose Thiaumont Work. Portugal's resolve to extend her military cooperation to Europe announced.
August 9.----Fall of Gorizia to the Italians; the Isonzo crossed and the Austrians pursued; Italians occupy the hills of the Rosenthal and the Vertoibica line; total prisoners to date 12,000. Russians gain the junction of Chryplin, two miles from Stanislau. British gain 200 yards on a frontage of 600 yards, north-west of Pozieres. French advance north of Hem Wood. French guns bombard Doiran on Serbo-Greek frontier. Turkish counter-attack, Sinai Peninsula, repulsed. Zeppelin raid on East Coast; 22 casualties.
BC Archives, MS-0392 FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS Box 1 Diary and enclosures, 1916. Volume 5