POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 35

• June 18, 2017 16:06:43 L G

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  in the dark. I dont remember much about the journey. We

  tried to play bridge on an improvised table but the train

  swayed so much that this was out of the question.

                        TORGAU

  We had a considerable delay at the station. We were there

  marched with a strong escourt to the lager which was in

  an old fort on the other side of the ELBE. The march

  was a long one and as all our lame officers had to walk

  it was also a slow one. It was a rainy nasty night so

  not many of the inhabitants were on view. Those who

  were, reviled us in the manner which by now had become

  quite familiar.

  On arrival we were met by an English Staff officer & then various

  particulars were taken down by the official interpreter. He,

  in civil life, was a professor (of languages I think), at Belfast

  University . In his short military life he was a corporal in

  the R.E. The Germans then took us in hand,  they issued out

  to us with  a basin, a towel, & blankets a pillow, and the

  Article which they put the blankets in, and a mattress.

  We were then marched over to our sleeping quarters. Here

  back to the main building w^[insert] h [/insert] ere a supper was issued to

  us in the canteen.

  This place is run on quite other principles. Firstly the inside of the

  redoubt covers a large space it takes a good ten minutes to

  walk round it. There are a nice quantity of trees inside.

  One must not climb to the top of the rampart under the

  penalty of being shot. Again I was one day ordered off the

  gymnastic ladder which stands in the big yard. We have

  an apel each morning which is run by the British.

  
  

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• June 17, 2017 21:20:34 Annick Rodriguez

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  in the dark. I dont remember much about the journey. We

  tried to play bridge on an improvised table out the train

  swayed so much that this was out of the question.

                        TORGAU

  We has a considerable  ...  at the station. We were there

  marched with a strong escourt to the lager which was in

  an old fort on the other side of the ELBE. The march

  was a long one and as all out lame officers had to walk

  it as also a slow one. It was a rainy nasty night so

  no many of the inhabitants were on view. Those who

  were, reviled us in the manner which by now had become

  quite familiar.

  On arrival we were met by an English Staff officer  & then various

  particulars were taken down by the official interpreter. He,

  in civil life, was a professor (of languages I think), at Belfast

  University . In his short military life he was a corporal in

  the R.E. The Germans then took us in hand,  they  ... 

  us with  a basin, a towel, & blankets a pillow, and the

  Article which they put the blankets in, and a matress.

  We were then marched over to our sleeping quarters. Here

  back to the main building w^[insert] h [/insert] ere a supper was issued to

  us in the canteen.

  This place is run on quite other principles. Firstly the inside of the

  redoubt covers a large space it takes a good ten minutes to

  walk round it. There are a nice quantity of trees inside.

  One must not climb to the top of the rampart under the

  penalty of being shot. Again I was one day ordered off the

  gymnastic ladder which stands in the big yard. We have

  an apel cash morning which is run by the British.

  
  

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