Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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BC Archives MS-0392 - Box 1, Volume 4-5
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No 4 London General Hospital
Germany declares war on Roumania. Roumanians & Austrians in contact in Rotenturm & Predeal Passes, Transylvania Alps. Austrians withdraw south of Kronstadt - Austrian monitors bombard Turnu Severen, Giugers & other Roumanian towns on the Danube.
Austria-Roumania
August 29 - Austrian retreat before Rumanian advance; they admit occupation of Petroseny, Kronstadt, and Kezdi Vasarhely. General Lechitsky capture Mount Pantyr, 16 miles north-west of the Jablonia Pass. Fall of Falkenhayn; Marshal Hindenburg appointed chief of Gernam General Staff, and General Ludendorff Chief Quarter-Master-General. Prisoners captured in British offensive since July 1: 266 Officers and 15,203 men, with 86 guns and 160 machine guns.
To Canad. convalescent hospital Epsom - dinner in kitchen. Sergts. mess with Goodrich - see Tommy Brewer - tea with Bennett & Goodrich -
August 30 - Turkey declares war on Rumania; Zeppelin bombards Bukarest; Russian troops reported in Rumania. Russian progress near Jablonica Pass in the Carpathians. Enemy attempts to advance near Guillemont defeated.
Completion of two months' battle of the Somme; Germans driven well south of the Central Railway in East Africa; British warships have bombarded the coast near Dar-es-Salaam.
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916.