Prisoner of war

To my beloved wife and children,

I never got to see daylight in the battlefield until i was a prisoner. I was sent to the Prisoner of War Camp in Germany, right near Berlin. I performed labour both inside and outside of the camp. I was pretty well treated but i had small portions of food a day. The camp was short in supply and often didn't have enough food to feed all of us men. I was usually just fed black bread and soup when i didn't depend on you guys to send me out supplies, food and money. But it's alright, the portions were enough to keep me satisfied. When we first arrived, they gave us a prisoner uniform and was assigned a partner. A partner who has already been a prisoner far longer than i have. We shared parcels. He was a nice man. His name was Robert, he had as well had a daughter! About one year older than Tommy though. We bonded a lot but he was able to leave earlier than i did. So when he left, fresh new troops came in and now were paired up with me once Robert left. To keep us occupied we had a lot of entertainment! There were concerts, orchestras, plays and sports! I spent quite a while there but after, the camp was visited by canadian officers when the armistice took place. They arranged transportation for men to come back home.

Here are some of us at camp ...

This is some of my camp buddies in soccer and in plays!