Prisoner of War Camp
My great granddad was an officer serving in the trenches in the 1st world war, the "Glorious Glosters" I think. During one of the numerous offenses in 1916 he was captured, force marched and inevitably incarcerated in one of the German prisoner of war camps. He remained incarcerated until he was freed by allied forces at some point in 1918. He never as a rule talked about his experiences, the Germans were often known to boast that the POW camps were a fate worse than death. There was only one time I ever remember him talking about it, he had drunk a few too many whiskeys at a birthday party and even though he was very old and I was very young I distinctly remember his tales of his experiences in a convent school, outside Heidelberg, where he was forced to spend the rest of the war teaching the young girls home economics. For him, as a man of honour, the humiliation was unbearable.
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Next week
The story of the man who cleans out the public toilets in Aberdeen, Wee Jock "Poo-Pong" McPlop.
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gotya
I like blackadder too
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