POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 72

• June 21, 2017 03:22:46 L Brittain

   ..The first line is written in the top margin and in a different colour than the rest of the page and indicates that is should be inserted  after the word "doctor" on the second row of the original writting.         37.
  

  who was quite indifferent if you went near him
  

  
  

  one could get leave to visit Wagonhause in the morning on
  

  the excuse of viewing the doctor but had to return at a
  

  fixed hour.  The parcels + letters were also issued at
  

  Wagonhause
  

  The two exercise grounds were visible to each other + one
  

  could communicate by semaphore if the Germans did not
  

  see one.
  

  We had a slide made in our yard.  Every evening the
  

  Germans put ashed on it.  Next day we made another
  

  + so the game continued.  The outside of the place was
  

  lit up by electric light at night.  This is done in all
  

  camps that I have been in.
  

  On Sunday if there was a service we were allowed out to
  

  the place which though actually in Wagonhause was entered from
  

  the neutral ground between the two yards.  Once a
  

  month a German Parson used to hold forth + occasionally
  

  the English Chaplain O'Rooke from Burg came over.  Then we
  

  heard the news from there + the various camps
  

  he had visited.
  

  Life passed on a monotonous way. We soon had to
  

  give in our tobacco, but even so there was little
  

  difficulty in purchasing it in the canteen. It was only a
  

  case of dodging the German N.C.O on duty.
  

  There was also another search but we got wind of it.
  

  Tobacco was hidden under the floor, a diary under the
  

  coals etc.  It was done in the rooms here.  Early in the
  

  morning a German sentry came and posted himself in
  

  the room + under no conditions would he allow
  

  anyone outside.
  

  The search itself was nothing like so efficient as at the
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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