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6.the German Interment Prison and we used to look over and watch the prisoners at work cutting up the trees.
Whilst on the march to camp we encountered a mixed lot of Germans going along for internment, some had their umbrellas up to protect them from the sun. the dust at this stage of our career as embryo soldiers was most trying and when we came up to the Holsworthy Camp we were greeted with cries "You'll miss your mother", "You'll be sorry" and "Marmalade". Stew was the staple item of food supplied and continued to be so for the whole of my career as a soldier. It was sometimes varied by a sea-pie in France at a later period.
I well remember the first guard at Holsworthy, how careful I was to do everything in so dutiful a
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