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which suggests that this used to be a very big establishment. The ‘’hotel’’ itself and the nearby buildings, which now serve as mess, pantries, kitchen, apartments for our reserve officers and pharmacy, are surrounded by a granite wall, about 15 feet high and complete with watchtowers in every corner, which are no longer being used, however. The stairs and roofs of the towers are unsafe now, so our guards are being posted along the walls at
night. In front of the prison, but still within the walls, is a square where we muster for the roll-call mornings and evenings. To the right and left of the gate, and above the same, which is part of the wall, there are guardrooms for the soldiers and commanding officers. The Tommies and also the two officers in charge, Lt. Eaton and Lt. Ford, about 25 men in
all, sleep in tents outside the gate. If the main building had a turret, you could take it all for an old Norman castle. They say that all the other, rather numerous,