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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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Army Corps HQ. Bailleul (Nord) Sets 5h. 21m.] OCTOBER,1915. [8th. Ne Moon 9.42 p.m.

THURSDAY 7 [280-85]

Change billeTs today -our landlady having grown Too grasping QM.SergT Pennie goes down wiTh an inTerpreTer and Tells her 12 soldiers will be billeTTed on her nexT Time. - Madame very [inTerpreTive?] againsT me. Move To 13 Rue de Cassel chez Mme LeprevosT. BerThe .25.corseTiere, red haired girl Marie Mery + BeTTy - InviTed down mke friends wiTh liTTle Andre - hear him his leTTers.. "Major Gibson geTs his commission in 16th Took 4 monThs To geT his papers Thru as he sTood on his record as an W.Officer wouldnt have pull exerted from Canada.

FRIDAY 8 [281-84]

Pulling BriTish + German Trenches on 28SW. 1/20000. Take 2 1/2 hrs. for exercise and visiT The Oliviers. The son now in The fighTing line in Argonne + The old lady very worried. Jeanne Chieux' brother probably fatally wounded in La Champagne - shoT in sTomach + Thigh- Again inviTed down - meet 2 more girls who are employed in The Bureau de PosTe + 2 A.O.C. non-coms - Their English hardly inTelligble + Their French worse. - Evidently Marie + Mery + BeTTy are The aTTracTion.

SATURDAY 9 [282-83] 41st Week

PuTTing BriTish + German Trenches on 28SW 1/20000. Take 2 1/2 hrs for exercise and visiT The Olivers - The son now in The fighTing lines en Argonne + old Elise very worried Jeanne Chieux' broTher probably faTally wounded in La Champagne - choT in sTomach + Thigh - Again inviTed down. Meet Two A.O.C. Non-coms, whose English is barely inTellible + Their, French worse - EvidenTly The girls are The aTTracTion! p7, 7A, 23-B 5 87

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

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