Record Number: 30440
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'We entrained about 3 pm in cattle trucks. The Belgians had straw in theirs, and 20 men to a truck. We had 40 men, and no straw. A further distinction was made with the aid of chalk on the Belgian trucks, where someone had written "Belgian gut, Francosen gut, aber Englisch Schwein".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:12 Oct 1914
Country:Belgium
Timeafternoon: 3 pm
Place:city: Termonde
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1885
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Able Seaman, Royal Naval Division/mining engineer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Belgium
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Ephemera
Form of Text:Manuscript: Graffito, Chalk-written sign.
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:30440
Source:n/a
Editor:Michael Moynihan
Title:Black Bread and Barbed Wire: Prisoners in the First World War
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1978
Vol:n/a
Page:4
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Michael Moynihan (ed.), Black Bread and Barbed Wire: Prisoners in the First World War, (London, 1978), p. 4, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30440, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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