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Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I

Diaries of Frank Cyril Swannell Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5

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18 field guns .52 machine guns

Canadian Corps Enemy quiet, but sTrengThening his works IT appears ThaT The enemy adapT Their head dress To correspond wiTh The colour of The sandbags where They are working.

Take afTernoon off + walk in The rain To Romarin + have my sTripes sewn on by Flore Dereumaux. GeT ride back in an arTillery limber. Call aT coTTage The Major frequenTed + an given a cup of coffee. "Pour vous regaler parce que vous eTes grade'". Madame DelmaTe gives exclamaTion of "Quel bonheur" But Think her enThusiasm is of a purpose, as laTer she asks a [franc?] more for The room The Townfolk were all warned To have lighTs ouT aT 8 TonighT.

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

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