Item 54: Friedrich Meier diary, 18 August 1914-August 1915 - Page 49
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<p>[Page 49]</p><p>continued non-stop through the night and arrived in Liverpool on Friday, August 20th, at 8.35am. All had to disembark and at 9.30am we marched off to the German concentration camp, where we arrived at 11.30am. We were told right away that we ship officers were to proceed to Berima [Berrima] later on. We were then put up in barracks, 50 men each; long, narrow wooden constructions with corrugated-iron roofs and the sun-facing side without a wall and protected only by a curtain, and thus very airy. Two adjacent barracks form a company, which is subdivided in 10 units of 10 men each. The units are 7.5m long and 2.4m wide, so that there are just 1,85 sq m to a man, and the beds have to be built as</p>
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