Item 54: Friedrich Meier diary, 18 August 1914-August 1915 - Page 116
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<p>[Page 116]</p><p>and so we are living pretty much in the open. Yet at this time of year, the temperatures sharply drop at night, to almost 0 degrees, whereas during the day it's 20-24 °C. The once unbearable dust problem in the Liverpool camp has been fairly eliminated by bituminising the ground. The kitchen and the sanitary installations are quite okay. The barracks have iron bunk beds, stacked three high, so we no longer have to sleep on the floor. We are not supposed to stay in this camp very long, by the way, because they are building a new camp 500m to the east of here (when we arrived they had just begun!), with barracks (and units of 4 men each), 3 dining halls, theatre, gym, school, bandstand and sporting grounds. On the 27th of Mai, 1918, our main</p>