Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander - Page 171
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[Page 171]
1918
Sat. 13 Apl.
Whitworth of the Sherwood Forresters, and his pilot are in our barrack.
(The two flying chaps who got 10 years in a fortress for dropping propaganda papers over the German trenches. They did 4 months.) Ordered to prepare to leave today for the officer's camp at Furstenberg in Mecklenburg.
Rotten luck as Bob & the crowd are at Heidelberg, I believe.
50 of us assembled in the mess-room at 10 a.m., including 3 Lt. Colonels (Smith; and Sloggelt & Bury of the K.R.R.), 1 Major, a few Captains (including Newstead and Wallace of the West Yorks.), some R.N.D. lieut., Clarke, (a Canadian pilot) and other assorted one and two-pippers.
We marched out through the double lines of barbed wire into the town; past the "Europaischer" and the Stadt Garten (now in full leaf & looking beautiful) to the Bahnhof, where the party was assigned two first-class carriages.