Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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50 Billets Essars-Lez-Bethune
JUNE, 1915 [18th, Sun rises 3h. 44m SUNDAY 13 [164-201] 2nd after Trinity
Short route march - Write to Mitchell -- Incessant artillery fire - later machine guns all night
MONDAY 14 [165-200]
Officer tells Sergt Maj to dock me days pay for not wearing respirator - mistakes me for Corp Wing Get mad - Tell Forbes the G-II-Lieut owes me an apology - nearly "court martial & sudden death" for me Paid 10 francs -- Paymaster -- Columbia man tells me I should be laying out the mines See Emery -- Mace now No2 Co 7th Battalion -- Hear that Blackie went crazy in the trenches Talk with group of peasants "Bons soldats, les Canadiens"