POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 154

• June 26, 2017 22:49:35 Annick Rodriguez

                               68.

  Now from my study of the German sentry. I should have put the

  man on this part as the most consiencious of the guard. X The

  ladder was fixed al [insert] all [/insert] right to the wire at the top but when

  the officer began to put his weight on it the trouble began

  Viz a terrific noise. "Damn it I'm going" he said - &

  making much noise he clamberd up the fence. In the 

  mean time the sentry was not to be put off. He dashed

  up blowing his whistle. -But the officer was over &

  his companion managed in the confusion to sneak back

  to the house unobserved & was mixed with the Cinema

  crowd when the lights went up/

  The escaped officer got clean away. He was caught near

  Brunswick ; it had rained every day that he was out

  He came back looking rather a wreck, but of course

  with a certain amount of information. As to the rest

  in this drama- The officer who had held the sentry in

  talk was shortly sent away to another camp, this may

  have been a co-incidence, as to disclose this fact the

  sentry would have given himself away. The sentry for

  not firing was given a dose of imprisonment in the

  pit stye & then sent to the front.

  A conversation between the 3 sentries who came to collect

  the officers kit was edifying. Said No.1 Had I been on

  guard the officer would have been a corpse. But No. 22

  I did not agree. All they would have done would have been

  to have fired their rifles. (A)

  As a sequel to this event the officer in question was sent

  to another camp. And here we have an example of

  German methods. - On his departure he was given the rucksak

  which he used & in it was his civilian clothes.

  
  

• June 26, 2017 21:17:46 Annick Rodriguez

                               68.

  
  

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