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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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Y.M.C.A

WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Address reply to:

1915

Name

No.

Section

Company Battalion Reg.

THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,

c/o GENERAL POST OFFICE

LONDON.

To the Regiment, presumably To have my discharge endorsed on it. So I suppose, if not choked in red Tape, my appointment is sure & I may be in England before Xmas. General Turner not only endorsed the recommendation of my colonel, but in addition wrote a personal letter.

The day before yesterday Capt. Gibson was killed very close to where I was working - He was I believe The son of the Lieut. Gov. of Ontario. It is like this all the time--Pure murder all of it. The more I see of it the more unreal and absurd this war appears. There is absolutely no glamour about it at all. I think we are all gone crazy together. Certainly civilization seems a very thin veneer. I am expecting any day very particular

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

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