POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 90
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left margin first line: & I attended rather an ordeal a Belgian tea given
in honour of their King's birthday .
We gave a dinner to the Chaplain just before he
left for England. My duty was to illustrate the
menus & I was given just half an hour to do
it in.
Teas however were our usual social form of enter-
tainment. Each little party had a separate mess.
One used to be asked to tea .with varrious people.
On wet days we found puzzles useful. I still kept up my
shorthand.
Every month an appel was solemnly read out to us Section ____ ?
something of the German Military Penal Code. It was
a long rigmorole, the idea being that every German
Officer was our superior, and so indeed were the
sentries round the camps.
Map drawn beneath the text with caption underneath:
Entrance
Tennis Court
Wagonhaus
Cavalier
Schornhorst
RIVER ELBE
Map showing two camps.
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left margin first line: & I attended rather an ordeal a Belgian tea given
in honour of their King's birthday .
We gave a dinner to the Chaplain just before he
left for England. My duty was to illustrate the
menus & I was given just half an hour to do
it in.
Teas however were our usual social form of enter-
tainment. Each little party had a separate mess.
One used to be asked to tea .with varrious people.
On wet days we found puzzles useful. I still kept up my
shorthand.
Every month an appel was solemnly read out to us Sec word completed in purple in right margin: tion _ ?
something of the German Military Penal Code. It was
a long rigmorole, the idea being that every German
Officer was our superior, and so indeed were the
sentries round the camps.
Map drawn beneath the text with caption underneath:
Map showing two camps.
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left margin first line: & I attended rather an ordeal a Belgian tea given
in honour of their King's birthday .
We gave a dinner to the Chaplain just before he
left for England. My duty was to illustrate the
menus & I was given just half an hour to do
it in.
Teas however were our usual social form of enter-
tainment. Each little party had a separate mess.
One used to be asked to tea .with varrious people.
On wet days we found puzzles useful. I still kept up my
shorthand.
Every month an appel was solemnly read out to us Sec word completed in purple in right margin: tion _ ?
something of the German Military Penal Code. It was
a long rigmorole, the idea being that every German
Officer was our superior, and so indeed were the
sentries round the camps.
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left margin first line: & I attended rather an ordeal a Belgian tea given
in honour of their King's birthday .
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left margin first line: d I attended rather an ordeal
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Magdeburg, Kavalier I Scharnhorst (POW camp)
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Magdeburg, Kavalier Scharnhorst - Wagenhaus (POW camp)
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Document location Magdeburg, Kavalier I Scharnhorst (POW camp)
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Additional document location Magdeburg, Kavalier Scharnhorst - Wagenhaus (POW camp)
- ID
- 3963 / 243399
- Contributor
- Toby Backhouse
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www.festung-in-magdeburg.deFortress Magdeburg - Fort Kavalier I Scharnhorst, two POW camps in WWI. In 1916 one of the French inmates was Charles de Gaulle.
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