POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 30

• June 19, 2017 14:39:41 L G

  One day it was announced in the local papers- that "it was

  the duty of civilians to send their dogs to help the poor

  sentries guard the ferocious prisoners."

  That night there was an exposition of the art of barking

  from quite a lot of our rooms.

  We were told (by our own seniors) that it was much appreciated

  but would not bear repition. repetition 

  A paper was published of which 2 or 3 members made their

  appearance. The drawings were clever and the writting

  for the most part  scurrilous. 

  Some ingenious bird, mice, and mole traps were constructed

  by officers with a bent that way.

  What one felt the most was the absence of privacy. Nowhere

  could one escape one's fellow bei[insert] n [/insert] gs.

  One of the features of the place was a German we

  nick named "Mossy face" whose job it was to look

  after the oil for our lamps & attend to the clock.

  He had a purple nose suggestive of bibulous habits. He had

  a little cottage in the S.E. corner of the fort.

  
  

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• June 17, 2017 18:22:16 Annick Rodriguez

  One day it was announced in the local papers- that "it was

  the duty of civilians to send their dogs to help the poor

  sentries guard the ferocious prisoners."

  That night there was an exposition of the art of barking

  from quite a lot of our rooms.

  We were told (by our own seniors) that it was much appreciated

  but would not bear repition. repetition 

  A paper was published of which 2 or 3 members made their

  appearance. The drawings were clever and the writting

  for the most part  ... 

  Some ingenious bird, mice, and mole traps were constructed

  by officers with a bent that way.

  What one felt the most was the absence of privacy. Nowhere

  could one escape one's fellow bei[insert] n [/insert] gs.

  One of the features of the place was a German we

  nick named "Mossy face" whose job it was to look

  after the oil for our lamps & attend to the clock.

  He had a purple nose suggestive of bibulous habits. He had

  a little cottage in the S.E. corner of the fort.

  
  

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• June 17, 2017 18:20:20 Annick Rodriguez

  One day it was announced in the local papers- that "it was

  the duty of civilians to send their dogs to help the poor

  sentries guard the ferocious prisoners."

  That night there was an exposition of the art of barking

  from quite a lot of our rooms.

  We were told (by our own seniors) that it was much appreciated

  but would not bear repition. repetition 

  A paper was published of which 2 or 3 members made their

  appearance. The drawings were clever and the writting

  for the most part  ... 

  Some ingenious bird, mice, and mole traps were constructed

  by officers with a bent that way.

  What one felt the most was the absence of privacy. Nowhere

  could one escape one's fellow bei[insert] n [/insert] gs.

  
  

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• June 17, 2017 18:16:36 Annick Rodriguez

  One day it was announced in the local papers- that "it was

  the duty of civilians to send their dogs to help the poor

  sentries guard the ferocious prisoners."

  That night there was an exposition of the art of barking

  from quite a lot of our rooms.

  We were told (by our own seniors) that it was much appreciated

  but would not bear repition. repetition 

  
  

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