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A CORNER OF THE COTSWOLDS

... am going to write about one county and I don’t want to make anyone cross. If the reader is particularly bored he can, so to speak, translate my words into terms of his own county and hug to himself the knowledge that it is ever so much better than mine ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1942
Newspaper: Prisoners of War News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HeRrE are some interesting reactions to the Government’s plans for demobbing. It is reaction from the people ..

... who pledged to see that all ex-servicemen will get a square deal when the war is over. Major Ueckermann says that generally speaking the troops approve the demobilisation plans, and want them to be introduced as a Bill during the next session of Parliament ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1944
Newspaper: Prisoners of War News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

Golf has much of the characteristics of billiards in that it is a stationary and not a moving ball game,

... at him, and J. H. Taylor has not yet wholly forgiven a young man who did that to him at Prestwick in 1914. So, generally speaking, the nature of golf enforces a high standard of good manners among spectators. It is otherwise with football or cricket, ...

Published: Monday 01 November 1943
Newspaper: Prisoners of War News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

EUROPEAN STUDENT RELIEF FUND

... express the conviction, clearly brought out by our daily mail, adds E.S.R.F., that the need for intellectual help to English-speaking students in German and Italian prisoner camps, increases every day ; and that we must all make greater efforts to keep faith ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1943
Newspaper: Prisoners of War News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

her to fall into my arms, kiss the furrows of my martial brow, and cry, “My hero! Omy hero!” She

... realised that sniffs have declensions ? . There is the sniff nominative, which means, ‘ Listen to me, you poor fool—l am speaking !>” There is the sniff accusative, which means, ¢ Why I ever married a creature like you, Heaven alone knows ! There is the ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1942
Newspaper: Prisoners of War News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 332 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Vol. V 1 No. 3

... from ““We Prisoners of War,” published by the Association Press, New York, in which ** Sixteen British Officers and Soldiers speak from a German Prison Camp.”] 107 ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1943
Newspaper: Prisoners of War News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 299 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Royal Corps of Signals

... Prisoners of War News, and the consequent increase of new readers, a brief re-statement of our aims may be permitted. Broadly speaking these are : the welfare of all men now - prisoners of war ; and the interests of their relatives in our area. , ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1941
Newspaper: Prisoners of War News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 346 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

interest

... We have a comprehensive library, excellent concerts sponsored by our Colonial friends occur periodically, and generally speaking we can usually find something to kill the monotony of our enforced exile. Christmas here was a great success, and only one ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1944
Newspaper: Prisoners of War News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

WHAT PRISONERS THINK ABOUT PARCELS

... waiting to hear from you with any suggestions of what I might do to help the next-of-kin, I was given the opportunity of speaking to half a dozen of the repatriated prisoners. I doubt if anything they told me would be new to you but it was good to hear ...

Published: Tuesday 01 June 1943
Newspaper: Prisoners of War News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 332 | Page: 61 | Tags: none

The tables are all numbered, so that members with prisoners in the same camp can sit together and exchange news,

... etc. Items of general interest are read out by the President or the Secretary, and during the afternoon we invite someone to speak to the relatives. Miss Christine Knowles was our first speaker, and owing to her experiences in the last war, was able to enlighten ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1941
Newspaper: Prisoners of War News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

PRISONERS][OF WAR} NEWS

... prisoners of war at Longside. We are receiving our food parcels pretty regularly, also food from the Argentine, for which I, speaking for all of us here, want to convey to you and all your helpers, our most sincere thanks for the great service you are doing ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1942
Newspaper: Prisoners of War News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 28 | Tags: none