Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander - Page 165
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[Page 165]
1918
Mon. 8th Apl.
The routine here is as follows.
No breakfast is supplied, but coffee ersatz is obtainable from the canteen at 15 phennigs a small cup.
Appel at 10 am. All line up in the amusement hut and respond to the names when called by passing out and saluting the Hun camp-adjutant standing at his saluting-base in the porch.
Included in Karlsruhe's lager "visitors" at present are Brig. General Dawson & staff (S. African forces.), some half-doz. colonels; lesser lights to burn.
No naval men, & I am the only Mercantile Marine man present. (My dilapidated but well-cut "drag" & it's once-gold braid are quite noticeable in this glittering but khakied assemblage. Besides, it is smart to be dilapidated here; one must show traces of service. But of course the dilapidation must have a Well-Cut past.)