POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 78

• November 19, 2017 00:26:31 Paivi Tenhunen

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  There was an extraordinary fat Commander of the Guard at

  Schornhorst.  It was always an amusement when his guard

  came on duty.  The walk I do not know how far the

  guard marched was about enough for him.  He arrived

  hot & tired [insert]and bothered[/insert].  One day sitting outside the Guard Room

  he dropped his half smoked cigar.  It was a physical

  impossibility for him to pick it up.  This he realized.

  So he called one of the Guard to pick it up for him,

  and continued  his smoke.  [insert in different ink]This sounds and old chestnut but it

  was true[/insert].  At the bottom however he was not a bad sort, and would

  send the guard to pick up balls which had got beyond

  our boundries [SIC] - which was more than other Commanders

  of the Guard would do.

  
  

   ... Bottom half of the page contains a drawing in colour of a fat Commander of the Guard, signed PHL

  
  

  
  

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• November 19, 2017 00:08:42 Paivi Tenhunen

  There was an extraordinary fat Commander of the Guard at

  Schornhorst.  It was always an amusement when his guard

  came on duty.  The walk I do not know how far the

  guard marched was about enough for him.  He arrived

  hot & tired [insert]and bothered[/insert].  One day sitting outside the Guard Room

  he dropped his half smoked cigar.  It was a physical

  impossibility for him to pick it up.  This he realized.

  So he called one of the Guard to pick it up for him,

  and continued  his smoke.  [insert in different ink]This sounds and old chestnut but it

  was true[/insert].  At the bottom however he was not a bad sort, and would

  send the guard to pick up balls which had got beyond

  our boundries [SIC] - which was more than other Commanders

  of the Guard would do.

  
  

   ... Bottom half of the page contains a drawing in colour of a fat Commander of the Guard, signed PHL

  
  

  
  

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• November 19, 2017 00:05:17 Paivi Tenhunen

  There was an extraordinary fat Commander of the Guard at

  Schornhorst.  It was always an amusement when his guard

  came on duty.  The walk I do not know how far the

  guard marched was about enough for him.  He arrived

  hot & tired [insert]and bothered[/insert].  One day sitting outside the Guard Room

  he dropped his half smoked cigar.  It was a physical

  impossibility for him to pick it up.  This he realized.

  So he called one of the Guard to pick it up for him,

  and continued  his smoke.  [insert in different ink]This sounds and old chestnut but it

  was true[/insert].  At the bottom however he was not a bad sort, and would

  send the guard to pick up balls which had got beyond

  our boundries [SIC] - which was more than other Commanders

  of the Guard would do.

  
  

   ... Bottom half of the page contains a drawing in colour of a fat Commander of the Guard, signed by AHL

  
  

  
  

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