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Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I

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Billets - Oblinghem par Choques Told off to machine gun section for " Instructional purposes" - taking Colt machine gun to pieces- to Bethune for a bath- some good shops. Buy souvenir " La picca de soixante -quinze" etc. Mme Dubois, Boulangerie- refugiee from 6 km of LaBassee- left home the day before the British arrived. Still with the machine gun section - grand dinner - Bush, Bateman, Cpl. Morley & Sgt. Maj. Forbes - Mme Dubois shows me a letter she is writing to Ada. Volunteer for " Royal Engineers" as the extra pay is needed at home. Acknowledge Flewin's [?] - Mrs Woodham Bell 2 Eaton Crescent - Clifton - Bristol. Machine gun drill in the morning. served out khaki kilts & spent afternoon getting them fixed. Mme. Rosaline Libessart wants to write Minnie - this girl goodlooking, vivacious - free- easy in fact - poor type - lower town class - get acquainted thru the shoemaker. bringing "Tuck" & I in to treat us with beer & coffee - the latter served in a glass

BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1, Volume 4, FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures, 1915.