POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 106

• June 22, 2017 20:47:24 Annick Rodriguez

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  The Climate is certainly vigorous. We left glorious summer

  at Magdeburg, [insert] have [/insert] we found rain & it rained, most of August

  [insert] and was [/insert] very cold too- There was a little nice weather in Sept then

  more rain- A lovely fortnight in Oct. but the 20th..

  At was [insert] of this march saw the first fall of snow. Snow & thaw till xmas-

  Then the snow came & lay till March. Nice weather

  for a bit. One sat in the sun & watched the snow melt.

  May was not a bad month but after that there was

  no real summer. In fact in the summer so called of

  1916 I always wore 2 waistcoats & never sitting out

  [insert] in the sun [/insert] was really too warm. There must be an abnormal

  amount of rainfall in this spot. The Climate has little

  to recommend it except that it is pure & invigorating.

  When we first came, we constructed quite a spating little

  golf course of 9 holes round the estate. Of course it was

  garden golf, but one got mist heavily punished if one

  got off the line. The largest hole was about 100x in

  the field. We used to hold competitions - bogey rounds

  etc. It was neces[insert] s [/insert] ary to play right round the place

  Of course our allies would walk & naturally some of them

  got hit every day . A half length shot would ricochet

  off a Belgians head onto the green or more probably hit

  his leg & go off into the rough. In which case it was

  harder to apologise. Shout as one would they would not

  move & generally selected a green to stand & talk on.

  I have seen one of our long handicap men get a Russian

  a full shot on the chest- At the short hole - fortunately

  he was a great friend of the Russians- but it required

  some smoothing over for the Russian was one Col. Popoff

  & his dignity was badly hurt. On the whole I think

  
  

• June 22, 2017 20:45:55 Annick Rodriguez

                                                                                  52.

  The Climate is certainly vigorous. We left glorious summer

  at Magdeburg, [insert] have [/insert] we found rain & it rained, most of August

  [insert] and was [/insert] very cold too- There was a little nice weather in Sept then

  more rain- A lovely fortnight in Oct. but the 20th..

  At was [insert] of this march saw the first fall of snow. Snow & thaw till xmas-

  Then the snow came & lay till March. Nice weather

  for a bit. One sat in the sun & watched the snow melt.

  May was not a bad month but after that there was

  no real summer. In fact in the summer so called of

  1916 I always wore 2 waistcoats & never sitting out

  [insert] in the sun [/insert] was really too warm. There must be an abnormal

  amount of rainfall in this spot. The Climate has little

  to recommend it except that it is pure & invigorating.

  When we first came, we constructed quite a spating little

  golf course of 9 holes round the estate. Of course it was

  garden golf, but one got mist heavily punished if one

  got off the line. The largest hole was about 100x in

  the field. We used to hold competitions - bogey rounds

  etc. It was neces[insert] s [/insert] ary to play right round the place

  Of course our allies would walk & naturally some of them

  got hit every day . A half length shot would ricochet

  off a Belgians head onto the green or more probably hit

  his leg & go off into the rough. In which case it was

  harder to apologise. Shout as one would they would not

  move & generally selected a green to stand & talk on.

  
  

  
  

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• June 22, 2017 20:31:13 Annick Rodriguez

                                                                                  52.

  The Climate is certainly vigorous. We left glorious summer

  at Magdeburg, [insert] have [/insert] we found rain & it rained, most of August

  [insert] and was [/insert] very cold too- There was a little nice weather in Sept then

  more rain- A lovely fortnight in Oct. but the 20th..

  At was [insert] of this march saw the first fall of snow. Snow & thaw till xmas-

  Then the snow came & lay till March. Nice weather

  for a bit. One sat in the sun & watched the snow melt.

  May was not a bad month but after that there was

  no real summer. In fact in the summer so called of

  1916 I always wore 2 waistcoats & never sitting out

  [insert] in the sun [/insert] was really too warm. There must be an abnormal

  amount of rainfall in this spot. The Climate has little

  to recommend it except that it is pure & invigorating.

  When we first came, we constructed quite a spating little

  golf course of 9 holes round the estate. Of course it was

  garden golf, but one got mist heavily punished if one

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• June 22, 2017 20:28:20 Annick Rodriguez

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  The Climate is certainly vigorous. We left glorious summer

  at Magdeburg, [insert] have [/insert] we found rain & it rained, most of August

  [insert] and was [/insert] very cold too- There was a little nice weather in Sept then

  more rain- A lovely fortnight in Oct. but the 20th..

  At was [insert] of this march saw the first fall of snow. Snow & thaw till xmas-

  Then the snow came & lay till March. Nice weather

  for a bit. One sat in the sun & watched the snow melt.

  May was not a bad month but after that there was

  no real summer. In fact in the summer so called of

  1916 I always wore 2 waistcoats & never sitting out

  [insert] in the sun [/insert] was really too warm. There must be an abnormal

  amount of rain 

  
  

  
  

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