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Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I

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55 Neuf-Berquin to Billets La Maison Blanc

27th, Full Moon 4.27 a.m.]     JUNE, 1915.     [2nd, Sun rises eh. 50m.
SUNDAY 27  [178-187]  4th after Trinity

at Neuf Berquin -- church, old mill shelled by English 7 German officers at our billet 10-14 October -- French at Merville, English at Hazebrouch -- 32000 Germans German machine guns in

MONDAY 28 [179-186]

granary windows -- 75 m.m. guns threw 40 shells into the farm -- round holes -- through door. -- one shell exploded in kitchen midden & another in chimney. Told that 600 Germans buried near burnt farm close by. Move out 8 pm & march to old billeting area. -- Sleep with Dan McGregor in waggon box -- very cold & stiff Visiting old friends all day -- made very welcome everywhere

Wrote Noakes enclosing duplicate copy of will

TUESDAY 29 [180-185]