Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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Cosden Camp and London 40 May [15-17] 15 MONDAY [136-230] 5th Month 1916 Scottish Quarter Day (Whitsunday)
Attached to 119 Siege - Go on route march with Lieutenant - formerly lawyer in Winnipeg. Afternoon Drill 6" BL Howitzer and No. 5 Director - Capt. Finds non-existentent [illegible] - Walk with Jenkinson.
16 TUESDAY [137-229] hanging out line of fire. Posted To 133 Siege and rush off to London. dinner at Nat. Lib. Club with Elliott and hear Doris Keane in 'Romance' - Splendid, but her appearance spoiled by beauty patch Stop Hayells Family Hotel. Strand.
17 WEDNESDAY [138-228] 2h 1'm P.M. (Greenwich) Morning in Record office with Jenkinson. - See Domesday Book, Red Booth The Old Pipe Rolls and Exchanges Tally 12th Century - Acres of parchments mainly undeciphered. Afternoon call on T S Mooreand Nellie Gauley- Latter poor girl in a stuffy drapers shop on a mean street Dinner amid much pomp at Jenkinsons - Mrs J. more literary than pretty - Girton girl.
BC Archives GR-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916.