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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
A.D.Churchill (GS). Letter 8/2/20. German POWs unrepentent "When the Bosche prisoners were going home they made all sorts of remarks to the French, Paris 1925 etc".
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
R.J.Stannard (GS). Diary 19/10/16 "Nervy but unmistakeably relieved”. Delville Wood area.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
D.F.Stone (GS). "Diary" account 4/10/17 "ghastly to see human beings whether friend or enemy so mangled and tom".
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
I.H.Macdonell (GS). Letter 14/16 " I am resolved to take no German prisoners at all....Germans have disgraced".
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
H.V.Jones (GS). Letter 112. "... a pleasure to minister to their needs.." (contrast with trying to kill them moments earlier). 19/6/1918.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
P.Gardner-Smith (A ir) Diary, T u e s .S e p t.24.1918 "Today come the Hun prisoners to work on the Camp, and a depressed looking lot they are, one almost wonders whether they have such a good time as the papers make out. At any rate they are not overfed for the cook threw out a tin of oatmeal and they fell on it like wolves". Oct.3rd '...assisted by a very civil Hun prisoner'. See also letter 30.10.18.
Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
C.W.Walker (GS) Notebook, p3-4, p18 'Youthful and well fed'.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
Rev.Noel Mellish V.C. M.C. F.K.C. (GS) Chaplain. Memoirs pp44/45. POW used as stretcher bearers and POW anecdote.
Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
R.L.Mackay (GS) Diary 19.7.18. Many boys and a fair number of older men. 'They all looked dour, glum and fed up. A few
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
P.E.Mc-Evoy (GS) Letter 14.4.17. Comments on how young the German prisoners he saw were.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
G.Mortimer (GS) Letter 12.11.16 - German prisoners mending roads "did not appear to be unhappy or overworked". Glad to be out of it "because their Army is getting a jolly good hiding".
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards German POWs
I.L.Read (GS) Memoir pp 132 and 172.
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