Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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and was ouT on a TacTical [recommaissanes?] -The observer sTaTes That he had losT his way - He was very young 17 years By a curious coincidence The M.G carried by The aeroplane was a ColT sTranger yeT reporTed as having been idenTified as one capTured from The 3rd Can. Infl. Bde aT The apex of The [Ypres?] salienT in The fierce fighTing of April 24th. IT Thus came back. A 2d German aeroplane was hiT + broughT don 930 am. by our flying Corps, wiThin The enemy's lines. This aeroplane is reported as having previously been dropping aerial bombs near Kemmel Hill Dummy MorTar BaTTeries. Acaptured German Order of 2d [Bawar?] Foot arTillery Bde, daTed Aug 1st, sTaTes ThaT experimenTs which have been made wiTh a view To geTTing rid of The ring of smoke produced when a mortar is fired have noT given saTisfacTory resulTs An aTTempT has consequently been
made To produce This ring arTificially in dummy baTTeries. The apparatus used is cylinders - conical Pin Tube 1.90 m long + 40 cm. in diameTer in The cylindrical parT, which is charged wiTh 150g. black powder, IT is placed in The enTrances of The shelTer holding The men ThaT work iT. The smoke is produced on receipT of a Telephone message from The baTTery, or on hearing The morTar fire. BC Archives,MS-0392, Box 1, Volume 4, FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures,1915.