Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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| − | Interviewed Col. Hestor Tirard OC No4 - so to GOC Siege. ADDMS Horses Guards. | + | No. 4 London General Hospital |
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| − | + | Interviewed Col. Hestor Tirard OC No4 - so to GOC Siege. ADDMS Horses Guards. Weary to death of red tape - lunch with the Trotters - dinner with Hookes & Martin at Italian restaurant Soho - return on top of 12th bus - wonderful searchlight display - some projectors 5 foot diam. | |
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| + | 141 officer casualties (63 dead) rank & file 5197. Zepp raid on Bucharest. | ||
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133 officer casualties 3134 rank & file. | 133 officer casualties 3134 rank & file. | ||
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| + | Boarded by Tirard & Maj Mott - 2 mos - 2 nod. See Maj. Maude for Director of Personal Services. To Hampstead Heath with Elsie Gill - but miserable weather. Witness greatest Zepp raid - shelling & Zepp under searchlights - see Zepp coming down aflame - 2:22 am - cheering in the streets. With Bennett & Burns to Youngs - start to see Zepp wreck at Cuffley - road like Epsom Day - have to turn back. | ||
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| + | BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916. | ||
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No. 4 London General Hospital
Interviewed Col. Hestor Tirard OC No4 - so to GOC Siege. ADDMS Horses Guards. Weary to death of red tape - lunch with the Trotters - dinner with Hookes & Martin at Italian restaurant Soho - return on top of 12th bus - wonderful searchlight display - some projectors 5 foot diam.
141 officer casualties (63 dead) rank & file 5197. Zepp raid on Bucharest.
133 officer casualties 3134 rank & file.
Boarded by Tirard & Maj Mott - 2 mos - 2 nod. See Maj. Maude for Director of Personal Services. To Hampstead Heath with Elsie Gill - but miserable weather. Witness greatest Zepp raid - shelling & Zepp under searchlights - see Zepp coming down aflame - 2:22 am - cheering in the streets. With Bennett & Burns to Youngs - start to see Zepp wreck at Cuffley - road like Epsom Day - have to turn back.
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916.