POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 110
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[insert] X The contractor was ordered to the front when the job was about
finished -and got wildly drunk on the strength of it. [/insert]
the allies were very long suffering, for as a rule they took
it all in good part. Matches were played for plat de sois
& very strange games were fixed up. During the winter
the Germans constructed huts in the field & by spring
when the snow had cleared away golf was no longer
possible.
As soon as possible we set about erecting a squash ra[insert] c [/insert] quet
court. As there were under 20 of us. This cost a considerable
outlay. It was also doubtful how long we might be
[insert] However on the whole we got a quite reasonable contract fixed up [/insert]
here. However when constructed I think it was a great
success. I had the honour of being secretary of this club. X
When the weather was bad one could always get 3/4 hour
of real hard exercise. In 1916 the camp began to fill
up with English & the reco[insert] u [/insert]rses of teh club got more &
more boxed. When I left in Dec 1916 there were about
40 members. This was not merely so satisfactory. For one
only got the court once in 3 or 4 days & then probably
at an hour when one did not want to play. After a
year of playing when one liked it was a nuisance.
But of course although we had paid for it & taken the
risk of not using it we could not adopt a policy of dog
in the manger. In any case I must say I got most
excellent value out of it.
In the spring of 1915 walks rather under one a week were
allowed on signing a paper that one would not escape.
Personally for reasons which I am not going to touch I did
not join the walking party for nearly 3 months. The
first walks were under the commandant. He was old
& fat but he used to get a considerable distance at
a very slow pace. The French & Belgians also came.
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53.
[insert] X The contractor was ordered to the front when the job was about
finished -and got wildly drunk on the strength of it. [/insert]
the allies were very long suffering, for as a rule they took
it all in good part. Matches were played for plat de sois
& very strange games were fixed up. During the winter
the Germans constructed huts in the field & by spring
when the snow had cleared away golf was no longer
possible.
As soon as possible we set about erecting a squash ra[insert] c [/insert] quet
court. As there were
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53.
[insert] X The contractor was ordered to the front when the job was about
finished -and got wildly drunk on the strength of it. [/insert]
the allies were very long suffering, for as a rule they took
it all in good part. Matches were played for plat de sois
& very strange games were fixed up. During the winter
the Germans constructed huts in the field & by spring
when the snow had cleared away golf was no longer
possible.
As soon as possible we set about erecting a
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