POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 75

• June 21, 2017 18:10:29 Annick Rodriguez

                                          39.

  latter as a punishment because he was always found in bed

  in the morning. My room now became very unexciting as

  it was filled with young objectionable French officers who like

  always the windows shut. I was backed up by the Belgian

  Captain. But I put in a petition to be moved to  a much

  better smaller room upstairs. This on the end was sanctioned

  but I did not spend more than  a week here. The order

  being given that the Flemish Belgians were to have special

  good treatment & were to be put together  in SCHORNHORST

  & we were all to be moved to Wagonhaus. It 1915 was a 

  lovely hot summer. One lay & read & played tennis after

  the court was completed.

  The opening of the new ground led to a fair number of escapes

  each was amusing in its way. In one case a Belgian

  picked the pocket of a man working on the tennis court

  took his identity card passport or whatever it is & walked

  out. The fun began in the evening when the workman

  wanted to go home. As he could not produce his card he

  was not permitted to go out. And the shades of night were

  falling  ...  he was permitted to leave.

  Then two officers got under the incomplete wire. This led to

  a dog hunt, not that the dogs did anything in the way

  of tracking. Of course we were all furnished- Innumerable 

  appels & being confined in our own little yard. Then

  3 Russians lay up in the chapel & at night for out of

  the window. The Germans never found out how they

  had gone. For days they exploded the place. Lay about

  on the roof. Went over every inch of the ground . No

  there was not a place a monkey could get out of. The

  truth was there was another Russian in the plan but

  
  

  
  

• June 21, 2017 17:30:25 Annick Rodriguez

                                          39.

  latter as a punishment because he was always found in bed

  in the morning. My room now became very unexciting as

  it was filled with young objectionable French officers who like

  always the windows shut. I was backed up by the Belgian

  Captain. But I put in a petition to be moved to  a much

  better smaller room upstairs. This on the end was sanctioned

  but I did not spend more than  a week here. The order

  being given that the Flemish Belgians were to have special

  good treatment & were to be put together  in SCHORNHORST

  & we were all to be moved to Wagonhaus. It 1915 was a 

  lovely hot summer. One lay & read & played tennis after

  the court was completed.

  The opening of the new ground led to a fair number of escapes

  each was amusing in its way. In one case a Belgian

  picked the pocket of a man working on the tennis court

  took his identity card passport or whatever it is & walked

  out. The fun began in the evening when the workman

  wanted to go home. As he could not produce his card he

  was not permitted to go out. And the shades of night were

  falling  ...  he was permitted to leave.

  
  

  
  

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• June 21, 2017 17:26:47 Annick Rodriguez

                                          39.

  latter as a punishment because he was always found in bed

  in the morning. My room now became very unexciting as

  it was filled with young objectionable French officers who like

  always the windows shut. I was backed up by the Belgian

  Captain. But I put in a petition to be moved to  a much

  better smaller room upstairs. This on the end was sanctioned

  but I did not spend more than  a week here. The order

  being given that the Flemish Belgians were to have special

  good treatment & were to be put together  in SCHORNHORST

  & we were all to be moved to Wagonhaus. It 1915was a 

  
  

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