POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 52

• June 19, 2017 13:34:52 L G

  27. In the top right corner 

  in single file one came to the building in which we had

  had dinner the first day. This was another living quarter

  & it also had a small yard attached to it. No sunshine

  at this time of the year reached any portion of

  our exercise ground except a small portion of this

  small yard. If one wished to walk in company one was

  more or less compelled to pace up & down the length of

  the ammunition building. Alone one could do a kind 

  of figure 8, -a longer walk.

  The whole except the little yard was hard cobbles or

  paving stones.

  Here we were fed by the Germans, and in a way better

  fed than in most places. Breakfast at 8 used to consist 

  of so called coffee, an excuse for a roll & butter, dinner at

  1 p.m. consisted of soup, meat a small portion, vegetables

  and an occasional small tea-saucer of apple or

  some fruit. At 4 p.m there was tea and sweet tasting

  bread the latter was however knocked off by xmas

  time. Supper at 6 p.m much the same as other places.

  The serving was done by orderlies. Things were dirty

  & there was an enormous delay between courses.

  Finally as there had been a complaint that the Belgian

  orderlies gave the Belgian officers the tit bits, the

  division of rations was done under Hun supervision.

  There was not at all a bad canteen attached where one

  could obtain a cup of soup at 11 a.m, cigars, tobacco, brodchen

  a kind of jam made of decayed prunes which I met for

  the first time & necessaries.

  The Canteen was only open a hour in the morning &

  an hour in the afternoon.

  
  

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• June 19, 2017 13:33:16 L G

  27. In the top right corner 

  in single file one came to the building in which we had

  had dinner the first day. This was another living quarter

  & it also had a small yard attached to it. No sunshine

  at this time of the year reached any portion of

  our exercise ground except a small portion of this

  small yard. If one wished to walk in company one was

  more or less compelled to pace up & down the length of

  the ammunition building. Alone one could do a kind 

  of figure 8, -a longer walk.

  The whole except the little yard was hard cobbles or

  paving stones.

  Here we were fed by the Germans, and in a way better

  fed than in most places. Breakfast at 8 used to consist 

  of so called coffee, an excuse for a roll & butter, dinner at

  1 p.m. consisted of soup, meat a small portion, vegetables

  and an occasional small tea-saucer of apple or

  some fruit. At 4 p.m there was tea and sweet tasting

  bread the latter was however knocked off by xmas

  time. Supper at 6 p.m much the same as other places.

  The serving was done by orderlies. Things were dirty

  & there was an enormous delay between courses.

  Finally as there had been a complaint that the Belgian

  orderlies gave the Belgian officers the  tip- bits, the

  division of rations was done under Hun supervision.

  There was not at all a bad canteen attached where one

  could obtain a cup of soup at 11 a.m, cigars, tobacco, brodchen

  a kind of jam made of decayed prunes which I met for

  the first time & necessaries.

  The Canteen was only open a hour in the morning &

  an hour in the afternoon.

  
  

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• June 19, 2017 13:32:31 L G

  27. In the top right corner 

  in single file one came to the building in which we had

  had dinner the first day. This was another living quarter

  & it also had a small yard attached to it. No sunshine

  at this time of the year reached any portion of

  our exercise ground except a small portion of this

  small yard. If one wished to walk in company one was

  more or less compelled to pace up & down the length of

  the ammunition building. Alone one could do a kind 

  of figure 8, -a longer walk.

  The whole except the little yard was hard cobbles or

  paving stones.

  Here we were fed by the Germans, and in a way better

  fed than in most places. Breakfast at 8 used to consist 

  of so called coffee, an excuse for a roll & butter, dinner at

  1 p.m. consisted of soup, meat a small portion, vegetables

  and an occasional small tea-saucer of apple or

  some fruit. At 4 p.m there was tea and sweet tasting

  bread the latter was however knocked off by xmas

  time. Supper at 6 p.m much the same as other places.

  The serving was done by orderlies. Things were dirty

  & there was an enormous delay between courses.

  Finally as there had been a complaint that the Belgian

  orderlies gave the Belgian officers the  tip- bits, the

  division of rations was done under Hun supervision.

  There was not at all a bad canteen attached where one

  could obtain a cup of soup at 11 a.m, cigars, tobacco, brodchen

  a kind of jam made of decayed prunes which I met for

  the first time & necessaries.

  The Canteen was only open a hour in the morning !

  an hour in the afternoon.

  
  

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