Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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Sunday October 17th 1915 n down in a moTor -TransporT To PloegsTeerT Find EllioT pracTising wiTh The bomb Throwers ['emmy'?] sTill wiTh Th 'CE's'- Uniform badly Torn up by wire - NighT before his gang had a bad Time - Germans Turned machine guns on Them in revenge for The nighT before (our paTrol caughT a German working parTy + dispersed Them wiTh [Taus?] + MG's + rifle-fire - Sneaked up in The fog and did a loT of execuTion. Long walk - Says my papers are being blocked as I am more useful as a non-com. - wants me To geT miTchells Colonel To give me a leTTer To a RE. Col., and promises To be whaT he can Too - His descripTion of his on TreaTmenT is a seeaThing commenTary on The promoTion sysTem. - His applicaTion was aT The war office 5 weeks simply waiting The signaTure of some official.
BC Archives, MS-0392, Box 1, Volume 4, FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures,1915.