POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 60
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... My idea is that the German Sour Officer had been making
a mess for the benefit of this superiors never proposing to
find anything.
... The oddest place perhaps for notes to escape detection was
the pocket of a German N.C.O, who afterwards returned
them to the owner.
X We ourselves had had a service here on Xmas day. In
which the Doctor constituted himself parson.
... There was a certain Belgian
OfGeneral here. He was taken in theruins of one of their forts. We did not as a rule see him as he
lived on a different part. His views on the duration of the war
won, though time has shown fairly accurate, thought to be very
pessimistic. On new year day he had a parade of us all and
shaking hands with the seniors made a nice speech in French
wishing
meus Good Fortune etc for the new Year.The German in charge of the Pay or swine geld we called it was
the only one who had any idea of manners, he even took
his hat off when he came into our room.
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... My idea is that the German Sour Officer had been making
a mess for the benefit of this superiors never proposing to
find anything.
... The oddest place perhaps for notes to escape detection was
the pocket of a German N.C.O, who afterwards returned
them to the owner.
X We ourselves had had a service here on Xmas day. In
which the Doctor constituted himself parson.
... There was a certain Belgian
OfGeneral here. He was taken in theruins of one of their forts. We did not as a rule see him as he
lived on a different part. His views on the duration of the war
won, though time has shown fairly accurate, thought to be very
pessimistic. On new year day he had a parade of us all and
shaking hands with the seniors made a nice speech in French
wishing
meus Good Fortune He for the new Year.The German in charge of the Pay or swune geld we called it was
the only one who had any idea of manners, he even took
his hat off when he came into our room.
-
... My idea is that the German Sour Officer had been making
a mess for the benefit of this superiors never proposing to
find anything.
... The oddest place perhaps for notes to escape detection was
the pocket of a German N.C.O, who afterwards returned
them to the owner.
X We ourselves had had a service here on Xmas day. In
which the Doctor constituted himself parson.
... There was a certain Belgian
OfGeneral here. He was taken in theruins of one of their forts. We did not as a rule see him as he
lived on a different part. His views on the duration of the war
won, though time has shown fairly accurate, thought to be very
-
... My idea is that the German Sour Officer had been making
a mess for the benefit of this superiors never proposing to
find anything.
... The oddest place perhaps for notes to escape detection was
the pocket of a German N.C.O, who afterwards returned
them to the owner.
X We ourselves had had a service here on Xmas day. In
which the Doctor constituted himself parson.
... There was a certain Belgian
OfGeneral here. He was taken in theruins of one of their forts. We did not as a rule
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... My idea is that the German Sour Officer had been making
a mess
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