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Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I

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Tuesday - September 14th

Germans still shelling Trench 140-142 - one casualty - 5-9 H.E. Our artillery retaliate with shrapnel. German artillery registering - 4 shells near Bereumaux? shop at Romarin. 2d Can. Gives now over & Canadian army corps formed - under general Alderson Baxter gets a haggis, which Flore? cooks for him - one taste enough for me - more 1st Canadian Artill Bde. At U.3 Earthworks being built - more stakes were added - two large coils thick black wire left on right hand of Messines Road - 1/2 " diam + no barb Right section - 770 artillery fire + little rifle, machine gun fire. 128-134 - Our snipers accounted for three Germans Today - in Prussian grey service uniform - the following notice put up by enemy opp 134 "Brest Litowsk the last fortified place in Polawie is fallen. We only lost 3