POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 147
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... I came across several queer characters here. There was a man
who said he was an English sailor with a German mother. That
he was waiting to be sent home. He was allowed out in the
town. I came across him on my arrival & when I left the
was still waiting. [insert] I may have slandered him, but I mistrusted him [/insert]
There was a German who asked me if I had been well treated
in Germany.
An American a N.C.O. in the Germany Army.
There were 2 French Native Officers- Arabs- Very different from
our native officers- They drank & smoked & gambled
having become externally at any rate French officers- I
mean originally they were I presume Mahommadaud, to
whom drinking etc is tabboo.
This created a big impression at the time but a subsequent
tour a duty in India, showed me that the followers of
Islam are by no means as they were say a quarter
of a century previously.
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... I came across several queer characters here. There was a man
who said he was an English sailor with a German mother. That
he was waiting to be sent home. He was allowed out in the
town. I came across him on my arrival & when I left the
was still waiting. [insert] I may have slandered him, but I mistrusted him [/insert]
There was a German who asked me if I had been well treated
in Germany.
An American a N.C.O. in the Germany Army.
There were 2 French Native Officers- Arabs- Very different from
our native officers- They drank & smoked & gambled
having become externally at any rate French officers- I
mean originally they were I presume Mahommadaud, to
whom drinking etc is tabboo.
This created a big impression at the time but a subsequent
tour a duty in India, showed me that the followers of
Islam are by no means as they were say a qarter
of a century previously.
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... I came across several queer characters here. There was a man
who said he was an English sailor with a German mother. That
he was waiting to be sent home. He was allowed out in the
town. I came across him on my arrival & when I left the
was still waiting. [insert] I may have slandered him, but I mistrusted him [/insert]
There was a German who asked me if I had been well treated
in Germany.
An American a N.C.O. in the Germany Army.
There were 2 French Native Officers- Arabs- Very different from
our native officers- They drank & smoked & gambled
having
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... I came across several queer characters here. There was a man
who said he
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