POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 94

• November 3, 2017 20:29:35 Thomas A. Lingner

                                                                     47.

  and the upshoot was that we were, or rather a certain number

  of us, were allowed to depart. I was the actual last one taken.

  On a baking hot day. At the beginning of august

  1915 we were marched down to the station It was a

  longish walk & the inhabitants took little interest in us.

  At the station the admiral put in an appearance. We

  were here joined by a small party from BURG. Strange to

  relate we travelled in 1st.. or 2nd.. class carriages- It was

  the first journey that I had been treated like an

  officer. The people at the stations were not in the

  least hostile. We were allowed to buy things en route.

  but only the Burg party had officially German money. A

  complete change seemed to have come over Germany, perhaps

  as the officer of the escourt remarked "we have become

  more humane," or perhaps it was a matter of policy.

  Up to date, certainly till May the Germans considered that

  we should be treated on the same scale as their privates - 

  we had much the same food for which we had the priviledge

  of paying, same beds, same rooms, same scale of clean sheets

  towels etc. Our only priviledge being to have one orderly

  to nine officers which usually worked out far less, as for

  example one man might be perminently employed in

  the kitchen, and another somewhere else etc. If there were

  81 officers there would be 9 orderlies quite irrespective of

  how they were employed.

                    __________ . ____________

  
  

  
  

• June 22, 2017 17:33:31 Annick Rodriguez

                                                                     47.

  and the upshoot was that we were, or ^[insert] rather [/insert] a certain number

  of us, [insert] were [/insert] allowed to go [insert] depart [/insert] I was the actual last ^[insert] one [/insert] taken.

  On a baking hot [insert] day [/insert] At the end of beginning of august

  1915 we were marched down to the station It was a

  longish walk & the inhabitants took little interest in us.

  At the station the Admiral put in an appearance. We

  were here joined by a small party from BURG. Strange to

  relate we travelled in 1st.. or 2nd.. class carriages- It was

  the first journey that I had been treated like an

  officers The people a the stations were not in the

  least hostile. We were allowed to buy things en route.

  but only the Burg party had officially German money. A

  complete change seemed to have come over Germany, perhaps

  as the officer of the escourt remarked "we have become

  more humane!, or perhaps it was a matter of policy.

  Up to date, certainly till May the Germans considered that

  we should be treated on the same scale as their private-

  we had much the same food for which we had the priviledge

  of paying, same beds, same rooms, same scale of clean sheets

   ...  etc. Our only priviledge being to have one orderly

  to nine officer which usually worked out for less, as for

  example one man might be perminently employed in

  the kitchen, and another somewhere etc etc. If there were

  81 officers there would be 9 orderlies quite irrespective of

  how they were employed.

                    __________ . ____________

  
  

  
  

  
  

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