Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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| − | Half-day in trenches - Spent afternoon plotting in the General's bedroom -- 2 6" HE. shells come over at 2 pm. -- one landing directly in front & other directly behind battery 150 | + | Half-day in trenches - Spent afternoon plotting in the General's bedroom -- 2 6" HE. shells come over at 2 pm. -- one landing directly in front & other directly behind battery 150 yds back of La Petite Mungue where we are.-- Splinters drop all around but nobody hurt-- the 3rd shot, if it had come, would have got the battery sure. The court-martial in the garden beat a hurried and undignified retreat for shelter. |
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Trenches 134-142
Sets 6h. 57m.]. AUGUST, 1915. [Day 13h. 51m. long
THURSDAY 26. [238-127]
Half-day in trenches - Spent afternoon plotting in the General's bedroom -- 2 6" HE. shells come over at 2 pm. -- one landing directly in front & other directly behind battery 150 yds back of La Petite Mungue where we are.-- Splinters drop all around but nobody hurt-- the 3rd shot, if it had come, would have got the battery sure. The court-martial in the garden beat a hurried and undignified retreat for shelter.