but that is better then what is out here, some of the Boys who were bold enough to take a chance were sent back to Boulounge, and to their astonishment found two parsons and seven Y.M.C.A. ladies in the same Hospital.

So Bishop is in the West Lanc's. We had some of them attached to us last fall. They were a fine bunch of fellows and often when we were taken on rations T? would point his machine gun at us when the West Lanc's would open up and fire right over our heads and make old T? hunt his dugout in a hurry

Wonder how Pat likes married life by this time.

Yes. Clara is married to my Smith. (the young man we

BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916.