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Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I

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February [1 to 3] 1 MONDAY [32-333]
Transfer to 30th Battalion
Partridge and Pheasant Shooting ends
- 8 hrs 3 hrs Toss on Carbine
5 hrs due Govt (3 hrs on Sunday) = -2
[?] Tables = 3.5 hrs
2. hrs Govt not charged January [a/c's?]
Recruit Drill in morning & afternoon.
Reported before Capt. Peck & notified of Transference to 3oth Battalion
Discharged from 88th Fusiliers
Downton enlists in Fusiliers

2 TUESDAY [33-332]
Purification of V. Mary. Candlemas.
Scottish Quarter Day
Medically examined, attested & put on Orders with 30th Battalion as No 1129 - obtain part of equipment.

3 WEDNESDAY [34-331]
Placed in No 2 Company - No 5 Platoon. Section 2.
In morning obtain all equipment escept puttees and badkges. Practice rear guard action in afternoon. Night march cancelled on account of rain

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